In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

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

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 ...

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...

This year, the Buck Moon follows Earth's aphelion, the point in its orbit farthest from the Sun, by just a few days, ...

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

A new analysis of BL Lacertae by NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer sheds light on the emission mechanisms of active ...

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

Cosmic radiation occasionally contains enormous amounts of energy, but we don’t know why or where this radiation comes from.