In some galaxies, large amounts of interstellar gas are spiralling around the super massive black hole and getting pulled in ...

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 ...

Space experts have uncovered a massive swarm of new supermassive black holes that could blow theories about galaxies wide ...

Collaboration has achieved the highest-resolution Earth-based observations to date, detecting light at 345 GHz from the ...

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

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the Universe.

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Liu Kuo and Chen Siyuan part of multinational group that has won Royal Astronomical Society award for work on nanohertz gravitational waves.

Finding patterns and reducing noise in large, complex datasets generated by the gravitational wave-detecting LIGO facility ...

Space-time may hide a bizarre new kind of black hole that causes Einstein’s theory of gravity to fail – and could solve the ...