Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...

The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

This low-mass supermassive black hole, spotted with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, ...

The theory goes that black holes accrete material, often from nearby stars. However the theory also suggests there is a limit to how big a black hole can grow due to accretion and certainly shouldn’t ...

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

This illustration shows a red, early-universe dwarf galaxy that hosts a rapidly feeding black hole at its center. Using data ...

The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant has been studied for over 2 million seconds since the Chandra mission began in 1999, with X-rays captured by Chandra (blue) and infrared data from Webb (orange, ...

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.