Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

The supermassive black hole only reveals itself once every tens of thousands of years. It has gone rogue and is on a killing ...

The brutal star-destroying tidal disruption event is only the second ever seen in interacting galaxies.

Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...

This stunning Hubble view of spiral galaxy UGC 11397 captures more than graceful arms and glowing stars—it hides a ravenous ...

At the heart of our galaxy lies a cosmic puzzle: although the Galactic Center is packed with star-making material, massive stars form there surprisingly slowly. Using NASA's retired SOFIA observatory, ...

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

Astronomers detect an ultramassive black hole weighing 36 billion suns in the galaxy LRG 3-757, a record thanks to ...

The researchers observed the Sculptor Galaxy for over 50 hours with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument ...