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

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

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

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

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Scientists now say that thousands of tiny black holes could be whizzing through your home at this very moment.

The galactic masterpiece combines over 100 exposures to reveal previously unseen features of stars in formation.