"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

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 ...

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three ...

Black holes may not be as life-destroying as we thought. A surprising study reveals that the powerful radiation from active ...

Sometimes a galaxy's supermassive black hole "wakes up" due to a sudden influx of gas and ... hundreds of millions of years—a process impossible to track directly in the real universe. These ...

While sifting out signatures of supernova remnants, a high-schooler stumbled upon the afterglow of a dormant black hole. It ...

New research challenges our understanding of black holes, proposing they may not be cosmic dead ends after all.

A high school student in New York has stumbled onto a massive discovery — a cosmic light echo possibly spanning twice the width of the Milky Way. While scanning space for signs of dying stars, 17-year ...

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

Despite the bounce and subsequent expansion, nothing can leave the event horizon, so it expands into a new region of ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...