Yale researchers among those who discovered three “ultra-massive” galaxies, which were formed shortly after the Big Bang and ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now a research team has studied hundreds ...

Supermassive black holes can have trillions of times more mass than the Sun, only exist in specific locations, and could ...

There’s plenty of action at the center of the galaxy, where a supermassive black hole (SMBH) known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) literally holds the galaxy together. Part of that action is the creation ...

In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again by 2020 -- only to dramatically increase its output again in 2023. At that ...

Astronomers have identified a rare cosmic phenomenon: a supermassive black hole, known as J0410−0139, located 12.9 billion ...

A supermassive black hole has been discovered by astronomers that's shooting a giant energy beam directly at Earth. The ...

Up to 50% of feeding black holes may be hidden behind gas and dust These black holes influence star formation in galaxies Infrared data helped uncover obscured supermassive black holes ...

On this date, Space shuttle Columbia took flight in what would be come the second catastrophic loss in shuttle program ...

Blue Origin has announced the launch of their New Glenn rocket on Sunday. Here is what you need to know. Researchers at Cornell University developed VR headsets for mice. The headsets allow ...

Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight Thursday, sending up a prototype satellite to orbit ...

One of the two astronauts stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) has taken their first space walk since arriving ...