A star in a distant galaxy appears to have been almost torn apart in a close shave with a supermassive black hole, not once ...

Astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan predicted that black holes can form without the help of stars. New observations support ...

When a star is born or dies, or when any other very energetic phenomenon occurs in the universe, it emits X-rays, which are ...

Researchers recently observed a record-breaking galaxy beaming with young stars, which existed only 290 million years after ...

An international team of astronomers today announced the discovery of the two earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen, ...

Researchers using James Webb have discovered the most distant known galaxy to date. It existed just a few hundred million ...

The JWST's infrared vision captures a galaxy undergoing an explosion of star birth, brought about by the consumption of a ...

Over the last two years, scientists have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to explore what astronomers refer to as Cosmic Dawn -- the period in the first few hundred million years after the big ...

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope images show streams of dust feeding the supermassive black hole in Andromeda, revealing how ...

Scientists have calculated the speed of a spinning supermassive black hole by studying the 'spaghettified' remains of a star ...

The findings, published Thursday in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, contribute to scientists’ ...

Einstein used this theory more than a century ago to predict what happens in what would later become known as black holes.