Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

This week, researchers hypothesized that human culture is distinguished from cultures of other species like whales by unique ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, appearing to guzzle ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

Astronomers continue to stress the value of X-ray science as NASA's flagship Chandra X-ray telescope remains on the chopping ...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers has discovered lumps of particles within a black hole jet in ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

A recent cosmic discovery reveals a black hole tearing apart one star and hurling its remains at another. This event links ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.