A black hole with a mass equivalent to 36 billion suns—10,000 times heavier than the one at the center of the Milky Way —has been discovered around 5 billion light-years from Earth. It may be the ...

The black hole is located in one of the two galaxies that make up the Cosmic Horseshoe system, about 5 billion light years ...

In a galaxy far, far, far away, astronomers have found the oldest black hole in the universe. It sits at the center of the CAPERS-LRD-z9 galaxy, and it’s thought to have formed over 13.3 billion years ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered dormant galaxies with a wide range of masses in the first billion years after the Big Bang, moving one step closer to ...

A recent discovery sheds light on a bizarre phenomenon at the center of our Milky Way: the detection of cold hydrogen clouds ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called ...

In actuality, if you went to outer space, you probably won't hear very much at all. "There is that popular saying that 'no ...

Hubble’s latest portrait of the Tarantula Nebula reveals a turbulent star-making region far beyond the Milky Way. Located 160 ...

Astronomers have discovered a dormant black hole 36 billion times the size of the Sun in the distant Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy, ...

A University of Queensland study suggests that the Milky Way is on a collision course with neighboring galaxies, predicting a ...

This galaxy formed just 930 million years after the Big Bang, offering a rare glimpse into the universe's early years.

Astronomers have identified an ultramassive black hole that could be the largest ever measured, hidden in a distant galaxy ...