An international team of astronomers has discovered an instance of two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as ...

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...

Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead ...

An international team of astronomers has conducted a multiwavelength study of an X-ray binary designated 1eRASS ...

In what is the first discovery of an Einstein zig-zag lens in the universe, a team of international astronomers have sighted ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

Astronomers have performed a comprehensive multiwavelength study of an extremely variable blazar known as AO 0235+164.

New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.

How the universe got its large magnetic fields has remained one of the stickiest outstanding problems in astrophysics. Now, ...

A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.

While the black hole is small relative to its galaxy, it appears to have a profound influence on the shape of the galaxy.