Scientists may have "heard" the first tantalizing evidence of primordial black holes formed directly from overly dense ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

These monster objects, known as Giant Radio Quasars, are part of a clutch of 369 radio quasars recently discovered by Indian ...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have discovered "signs of a ‘hot spot’ ...

Astronomers have long debated the role of galaxy mergers in powering active supermassive black holes. Now an unprecedented dataset of a million galaxies from the Euclid telescope provides evidence ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have successfully discovered 53 new quasars powered by supermassive black holes ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by Sagittarius A*, a black hole so massive that its gravity can stretch, tear, and ...

On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...