The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a runaway supermassive black hole. Video Credit: Black Hole Animation NASA’s ...

Matt Holder, Bleacher Report: Derrick Moore is a well-put-together pass-rusher who did an excellent job of expanding his ...

Dark matter keeps getting blamed for the universe’s big patterns while staying stubbornly out of reach. You cannot see it, touch it, or capture it.

The group of Prof. Paltani focuses on two main areas.

Most galaxies in the universe have a supermassive black hole (SMBH,) at their centre. If matter is actively accretted onto it, the galaxies are classified as `active' and they are dubbed as Active ...

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

Astronomers have watched a dying star fail to explode as a supernova, instead collapsing into a black hole. The remarkable sighting is the most complete observational record ever made of a star's ...

An organic molecule called methanimine was found scattered throughout a dense clump of gas and dust 554 light-years away.

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its ...