The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...

The Helix Galaxy, located 42 million light years away, is an unusual object as it is both a polar ring and a lenticular ...

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

Glasgow University scientists have developed a new dance mimicking ripples of spacetime first theorised by Albert Enstein.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow teamed up with the culture and research organisation Science Ceilidh to develop a dance to mark the 10th anniversary of the historic first detection of ...

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

Audrey Lang named an Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program for black ...