Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...

The X‑arithmetic technique offers a powerful new way to map the physics of other galactic structures across the universe and ...

The 11th day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features a new view of the heart of a nearby spiral galaxy.

A new study by CDC researchers has found that substance use disorders cost the U.S. economy just under $93 billion in 2023.

A black hole 30 million times the mass of the sun has produced winds one-fifth the speed of light, stunning scientists.

A little-known civil rights office in the Department of Education that helps resolve complaints from students across the ...

A remarkably clean gravitational-wave detection has confirmed long-standing predictions about black holes, including ...

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBH), if they exist, have between about 100 and 1,000 solar masses, placing them in between ...

A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

The European Space Agency said that the black hole inside the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 has the mass of 30 million suns.

A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...