BCG, astronomers have identified a starless void stretching 3,200 light years across, a gap first spotted in 2018 and long ...

Short-lived sources of radio radiation in the sky, known as radio transients, can originate in the vicinity of supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. They are the result of processes ...

This strange phenomenon first came to light when astronomers noticed a recurring problem in the telescope’s deep space images ...

Astronomers have uncovered new details about the black hole that ripped apart a star in a tidal disruption event named ...

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

A researcher at the Museum of Natural Sciences is using volunteer scientists to probe the universe for a mysterious type of ...

Tonima Tasnim Ananna says that when she was growing up in Dhaka, Bangladesh, rolling blackouts were the best time to look up at the stars. Ananna is now an astrophysicist at Wayne State University ...

Scientists have proposed a new method for finding tightly bound supermassive black hole pairs by searching for stars that flash repeatedly as their light is magnified by the black holes’ gravity. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have detected what may be the most massive black ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks. In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study supermassive ...

To study the origins of our universe is to struggle with profound chicken-or-egg questions. We know the Big Bang happened. Cosmologists can see its afterglow in the sky. But no one knows whether the ...

Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes reside in the centers of most galaxies. And they understand how certain ...