Research from Norway suggests supermassive black holes and their powerful winds might be the long-sought cosmic cause behind ...

No one knows what would happen if you fell into a supermassive black hole like the one at the center of the Milky Way. To answer this question, NASA researchers created a simulation using the Discover ...

Dozens of 'wandering' black holes could be tumbling through our galaxy right now, new simulations hint. Their existence could ...

Cosmic radiation occasionally contains enormous amounts of energy, but we don’t know why or where this radiation comes from.

NTNU researchers may have found the answer to one of the big, unanswered questions in physics. The universe is full of ...

Astronomers have observed two distant galaxies - both possessing roughly as many stars as our Milky Way - careening toward ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

In an astonishing discovery, scientists have found that winds blowing from supermassive black holes are not smooth and steady ...

A puzzling discovery in NGC 1068 shows a flood of neutrinos but weak gamma rays. Scientists now suspect helium atoms ...

UC Berkeley astronomers discovered a rogue black hole devouring a star 2,600 lightyears from its galaxy's core — the first ...

Around 13.8 billion years ago, a tiny but dense fireball gave birth to the vast cosmos that holds trillions of galaxies, ...