"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

It’s a woman’s world at the box office as “Avengers” star Scarlett Johansson has become the top-grossing star according to ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass behemoth.

Scientists think they found evidence of weird ancient stars called "dark stars" that are powered by dark matter instead of ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific wavelengths — fingerprints that reveal their age, motion, and chemical makeup.

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

Legendary Italian chef Umberto Bombana joins forces with the Executive Chefs of his Macau and Shanghai restaurants to ...