A detailed image reveals an unusual plasma jet structure, suggesting the presence of two merging supermassive black holes at the galaxy’s core. For more than a century and a half, the distant galaxy ...

It is a plausible scenario, according to Martin Rees, the cosmologist and former astronomer royal, because of the clumpy way ...

Astronomers may have recorded the violent birth of one of the weirdest objects our Universe is capable of producing.

A new study shows survivor stars can live billions of years longer than normal, carrying chemical fingerprints of their ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope may solve a riddle from the universe’s beginnings. A compact, distant object ...

A recent study from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) suggests that our universe was 'pre-heated' when the first stars began to form.

A growing list of dark star candidates could help explain why some early galaxies were so big, so early in the universe.

The newly discovered 'black hole star' could explain the emergence of supermassive black holes in the early universe.

An elongated object near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known only as ‘X7,’ has piqued the ...

Astronomers from Curtin University in Australia and elsewhere have performed radio observations of a tidal disruption event ...

The black hole at the centre of a galaxy more than 50 million light years away is spewing out a jet of extremely hot plasma – ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...