A black hole has shredded a massive star like it was "preparing a snack for lunch," according to a team of scientists at the ...

Using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) ...

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

Astronomers have obtained the sharpest-ever X-ray spectrum of an iconic active galaxy, providing the most accurate, precise ...

Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...

Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a ...

Some discoveries arrive quietly, without fireworks or clean endings. Astronomers were watching a distant flare from a galaxy ...

Our galaxy’s supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched ...

New observations reveal that the relationship between ultraviolet and X-ray light in quasars has changed over billions of ...

Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing ...

Astronomers have finally watched a black hole do something Albert Einstein only described on paper: twist the very fabric of ...