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, ...

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

A group of international astronomers have discovered three mysterious, ultra-massive galaxies in the early universe. The ...