Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

Building on decades of effort, a team of computational astrophysicists has achieved a major milestone: developing the most comprehensive model to date ...

In 2025, NASA faced unprecedented uncertainty as it grappled with sweeping layoffs, looming budget cuts, and leadership ...

Coiled and snakelike, a set of four identical shells surrounds a violent stellar dance 8,000 light-years from Earth.

Looking back on that night on the mountain, I’m tempted to call it a singularity—a sudden leap forward in consciousness.

In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

For the first time, NASA Chandra X-ray telescope has been used to discover a pair of black holes in dwarf galaxies that are on a collision course. The Chandra team explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how ...