A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...

"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a ...

France's political standoff shows how European governments, caught between the demands of their ageing electorates and the ...

The right to a pension has been a central plank of the European social contract for decades. But longer life spans and fewer ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered the first tidal disruption event (TDE) producing bright radio emission ...

When galaxies collide, it's not a gentle affair, but it does take millions of years. Over this time, the two massive star ...

Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as ...

Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...

Reionization is thought to have been driven by ultraviolet light produced by both early stars and active galactic nuclei ...

Most supermassive black holes don’t just swallow up matter, they eject it, sometimes in spectacular jets of super heated ...