Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics have combined high-resolution images from the ALMA telescopes wi…

The team discovered an exceptionally luminous galaxy more than 13 billion years in the past and determined its exact dis…

A group of unusual giant black holes may be consuming excessive amounts of matter, according to a new study using

UMD study reveals more about gravitational dance of two black holes becoming one

As two galaxies enter the final stages of merging, scientists have theorized that the galaxies’ supermassive black holes…

The host star of the latest exoplanet, HATS-6, is classed as an M-dwarf, which is one of the most numerous types of star…

Dark matter interacts with itself even less than previously thought, narrowing down the options for what this mysterious…

An X-ray telescope has, for the first time, observed powerful energy-rich winds emitted from black holes, providing new…

Study provides new insights into the universe's most powerful explosions

A new study provides detailed insight into the most powerful explosions in the universe

For the first time astronomers, including Dr Richard Parker, of the Astrophysics Research Institute at LJMU, have caught…

More than 40,000 amateur astronomers have classified two million unidentified heavenly bodies found by the SkyMapper tel…

A team of five astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology have revealed an extremely powerful magnetic field, be…

The galaxy highlighted in the study, known as IRAS F11119+3257, has an actively growing supermassive black hole at its c…

New research provides revelations about the most energetic event in the universe — the merging of two spinning, orbiting…

APEX and Effelsberg observations explain bright outburst in 17th Century caused by stellar collision

In 1670 a new star appeared in the sky, which could even be seen with the naked eye. It was not a nova, but a much rarer…

The “information loss paradox” in black holes — a problem that has plagued physics for nearly 40 years — may not exist

The paper outlines how interactions between particles emitted by a black hole can reveal information about what lies wit…

A new mechanism explains the strange orbit of suns in elliptical galactic systems

Elliptical galaxies form when at least two disk galaxies collide with each other and coalesce. Unusual things may happen…

By combining observations of the distant universe made with telescopes in Arizona as well as the European Space Agency's…

Caltech and UC Santa Cruz Researchers Say Earth Belongs to a Second Generation of Planets

Long before Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars formed, it seems that the inner solar system may have harbored a number of s…

UCLA astronomer is part of international team that discovered remarkable star cluster

More than a million young stars are forming in a hot, dusty cloud of molecular gases in a tiny galaxy near our own, an i…

An international team of astronomers has found a huge and ancient black hole which was powering the brightest object ear…