In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic center.

For the first time, NASA Chandra X-ray telescope has been used to discover a pair of black holes in dwarf galaxies that are ...

Mysterious little red dots threatened to overhaul modern cosmology—but new research may have solved the celestial conundrum.

NASA wants to view the Big Bang with this behemoth, so it's saying goodbye to the James Webb Telescope. The new one redefines ...

Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

A new study shows that black holes consume gas which creates an outburst that cools nearby gas for the black hole to consume ...

It's a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories each month. In the past, ...

Highly energetic explosions in the sky are commonly attributed to gamma-ray bursts. We now understand that these bursts ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.