Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, astronomers have found that a black hole that shredded a star has moved onto a another star or stellar black hole. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hoba ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory provides a new look at the Andromeda galaxy in this multi-wavelength image that includes ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

These dramatic events happened when giant black holes tore apart massive stars. The explosions were so intense that they released more energy than 100 supernovae, which are already among the brightest ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

NASA, ESA, and ground observatories have observed black holes causing the most powerful space explosions ever recorded, revealing previously hidden black holes.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed a surprising alignment in the spin directions of ancient galaxies, challenging ...

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about ...

“For example, Chandra’s X-rays reveal the high-energy radiation around the supermassive black hole at the center of M31 as ...