New research suggests that the first supermassive black holes in infant galaxies may be significantly smaller than previously estimated.

Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than ...

Very Large Telescope observations of the galaxy revealed that there was likely a “sudden awakening of the massive black hole at its core,” according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Credit; ...

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured a "violent cosmic collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense radiation," ...

Arizona-based Katalyst Space Technologies has scored a contract to raise the altitude of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has been hunting for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from low Earth orbit ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggests interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be far more massive than previously thought.

Sagittarius B2, a massive molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way, is densely packed with stars and complex magnetic ...

A team of researchers has put forth the idea of launching nuclear devices at asteroid 2024 YR4 with a chance of hitting the ...

Astronomers from the University of Southampton made the unexpected discovery while examining an infant galaxy 12 billion ...

"You can't get a fifth image in the center unless something unusual is going on with the mass that's bending the light," ...

Astronomers have examined an infant galaxy 12 billion light years from Earth for the first time using a new powerful ...