Black holes in a pair of merging galaxies, known as UGC4211, are devouring gas and dust that is "being displaced by the merger," according to ALMA scientists. The Atacama Large ...

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.

A spinning disk and a smartphone are all that are needed for students to study vibrations analogous to those produced by the ...

Two of the universe’s most extreme objects—black holes and neutron stars—can spiral into cosmic collisions that crack crusts, ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

A high-speed crash between two dwarf galaxies might explain a unique feature in space – and provide useful information on ...

Abell 2255 is a cluster containing between 300 and 500 constituent galaxies, many of which are merging. It's located around ...

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of a peculiar merger of two similar ring galaxies that ...

A team of astronomers say they've gleaned the mysterious structures of our galaxy's supermassive black hole by training an AI ...

A galaxy cluster reveals mysterious cosmic tendrils extending over 200,000 light-years, linked to supermassive black hole-dominated galaxies.

An Irish researcher will join a massive hunt for the enigmatic “ripples in space-time” first predicted by Albert Einstein in ...

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion ...