New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a large black hole inside the neighbouring ...

"For the first time, we could trace the boundary between the gas residing in galaxies and the material contained within the ...

Enjoy a free stargazing lecture followed by a Q&A panel and guided stargazing with telescopes (weather permitting). By ...

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

How does the universe work? What are black holes, neutron stars, and dark energy? This video attempts to explain astrophysics ...

The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

NEW HAVEN, CT – Yale astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan has been awarded the 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics in recognition of her groundbreaking research in black holes and dark ...

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...