The flare has been going on for seven years as a supermassive black hole consumes a massive star that ventured too close.

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass of our Sun—to pieces. Scientists propose this is what happened around the ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...

Learn about the closest black hole from Earth, Gaia BH1. This recently discovered black hole is dormant, but it’s only 1,600 ...

Located in the constellation Leo, spiral galaxy NGC 3370 has long been a favorite among astronomers. NGC 3370 is part of a ...

Researcher Matthew Graham said scientists didn't initially "believe the numbers about the energy" emitting from the cosmic ...

Radio astronomy opened up the universe for scientists. They could map new elements across galaxies and also search for ...

A ‘selfie’ taken during Webb’s testing on Earth. Ball Aerospace After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the ...

N obody does it better than supermassive black hole J2245+3743. It is a bright, active galactic nucleus (AGN), with a mass ...