The James Webb Space Telescope observed the same region of sky captured in the famous Hubble Ultra Deep Field image, ...

Scientists have released nine dazzling images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, blending data with the Hubble and James ...

By all rights, they shouldn’t exist. When NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first opened its eyes to the distant past, ...

GRB 221009A, the most powerful gamma-ray burst ever recorded, offered a rare look into stellar death, black hole formation, and particle physics, with insights from JWST and Fermi reshaping models of ...

These star-shredding black holes sit within dusty galaxies that block many telescopes’ views. That’s not an issue for JWST.

In fact, only three factors can be used to define a black hole: its mass, its angular momentum and its electric charge. In ...

New research suggests that primordial black holes created during the Big Bang could have played a major role in forming the ...

Unlike active galaxies that endlessly devour nearby matter, these black holes remain in slumber, stirring only momentarily to consume an unlucky passing star. Astronomers from MIT, Columbia University ...

What are some of the most oddly-shaped galaxies? Learn more about some of the Universe's unusual formations.

Astronomers believe they have spotted an elusive intermediate-mass black hole shredding a distant star, and they have re-created the stellar murder in a stunning new animation.

Black holes embody the ultimate abyss. They are the most powerful sources of gravity in the universe, capable of dramatically ...