A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

A distant supermassive black hole, PG1211+143, is consuming surrounding matter so rapidly it's expelling excess mass at ...