An international team of astronomers has used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a well-known ...

For the first time, astronomers have managed to capture a radio image showing two black holes orbiting each other. The ...

Deep in the core of most galaxies, hidden by spinning clouds of gas and dust, black holes spin like cosmic engines. These ...

When two black holes meet, they are drawn to one another by way of their enormous gravity, initiating a powerful orbital ...

At the heart of a quasar galaxy called RACS J0320-35, just 920 million years after the Big Bang, the black hole appears to be ...

Astronomers have successfully captured an image of two black holes orbiting each other, confirming they can exist in pairs.

The moment one galaxy spears another with a powerful beam of radiation shooting from its central black hole has been spotted in a distant galactic collision. It's the first time we've seen this kind ...

Quasars are the bright centers of young galaxies powered by supermassive black holes. Most quasars are very distant and faint, making them difficult to observe. One quasar, 0957+561, is ...

Astronomers have captured an image of two black holes orbiting each other, suggesting the possibility that black holes can ...

Astronomers from the University of Southampton made the unexpected discovery while examining an infant galaxy 12 billion ...

You’ll see some irregular galaxies that look like nothing, and some barred spirals that look like everything. Along the way, ...

As two distant galaxies trade blows in an ancient duel billions of years old, one belligerent has clearly proven itself more ruthless than the other. Each time the galaxies conclude their posturing ...