How black holes grow to monstrous scales is one of astronomy's prevailing enigmas. A new record-breaking dataset, which ...

Scientists have identified a colossal superstructure of dark matter, marking a significant advancement in cosmological ...

Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby ...

A team of scientists has found the largest superstructure ever reliably characterised in the universe. The discovery was made ...

The Euclid space mission of the European Space Agency has spotted an Einstein ring in the galaxy NGC 6505, just 590 million ...

Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...

Astronomers have discovered that many infant stars born in stellar nurseries of the early universe may have preferred "fluffy" stellar blankets.

Also called molecular clouds, they can be massive, spanning hundreds of light-years and forming thousands of stars.

NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.

A survey to reveal the unseen majority of the Universe has just turned up a treasure trove of black holes that may help solve ...