Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place.

Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive ...

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...

This image shows a narrow galaxy curving around its companion, forming a rare cosmic arc. This image, captured by Hubble, reveals GAL-CLUS-022058s, nicknamed the "Molten Ring". This image shows the ...

Quasars represent some of the most luminous and energetic phenomena in the universe. These distant powerhouses are driven by ...

A lonely black hole roaming the cosmos in solitude has been confirmed for the first time. A closer look has revealed the dark object's identity, after much hubbub. The new analysis shows that the ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

This new image showcases NGC 346, a dazzling young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The Small Magellanic ... However, it does surround a supermassive black hole that is more than ...

A pickup truck hit a black bear Wednesday morning, resulting in a 45-year-old man being sent to St. Cloud Hospital. Shortly after 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, a 45-year-old man from Milaca was reportedly ...

In the video’s introduction, Cameron discussed the impromptu nature in which “Black Hole Sun” came about ... “It’s stainless steel, and there’s a big ol’ weld in the middle of it, which I’ve always ...

Stephen Hawking made significant contributions to the study of black holes (Getty Images) Now, the new observations from the HST confirm that the mass is so large that is must be a black hole. While ...