A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, ...

A spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 exhibits powerful winds of material blowing from the supermassive black hole located at its ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that ...

"Many supermassive black holes may lie concealed within dusty regions of the early universe, undetected," said astronomer ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Primordial black holes are the earliest black holes thought to exist, and they vanished almost as fast as they came into ...

In a new book release, two scientists combine forces to explain the discoveries, developments and theories made in the realm ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of precious life in it?" A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could ...