So far, observations by instruments including the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed the presence of surprisingly ...

Pulsar timing array gravitational-wave searches have set the first mass limits on supermassive black hole pairs at cosmic ...

Astrophysicists think that the supermassive black holes (SMBH) we see in the modern universe are the result of a long, ...

Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies already existed in the very early universe. They grew by merging, but ...

Collisions between stars in the early universe were common, and this could explain the growth of supermassive black holes and ...

This version opens by explaining why larger black holes produce gentler tidal gradients at their event horizons. It uses M87 ...

The model, created by researchers at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, and other institutions, captures how ...

Bright planet Venus mingles with the Moon and meets a bright star, plus deep-sky treasures shine in the sky this week.

Archived observations appear to show a moving object in the far-distant outer solar system, but its reality is unclear ...

After nearly 22 years of exploring the universe’s most violent explosions, NASA’s Swift Observatory has re-entered Earth’s ...

An ageing Nasa satellite telescope that a robotic spacecraft was sent to retrieve on a failed rescue mission this summer was ...

It can be difficult keeping track of the various comings and goings in the games industry, which is why we compile them in semi-regular round-ups. If you have new appointments or transitions in your ...