NASA has discovered two monster black holes consuming everything in their path in a galaxy one billion light-years away from ...

New research reveals how supermassive black holes halt star formation, shedding light on galaxy evolution in the early ...

Scientists at NASA have found two ‘monster' black holes ‘weirdly' interacting with gas in the centre of a galaxy.

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the darling of high-energy astrophysics. Famed for providing unequaled x-ray views of ...

The LMC is a dwarf galaxy, relatively close to the Earth (in galactic terms) at around 160,000 light years away. That may ...

If you were lucky enough to observe a total eclipse, you are certain to remember the halo of brilliant light around the Moon ...

Cygnus X-1 was the first ever black hole discovered in the year 1960 which had 10 times more mass than the sun. It is galaxy ...

Black holes don't have many identifying features. They come in one colour (black) and one shape (spherical). The main ...

New research sheds light on how a pair of unusual black holes may have been able to keep their companion stars alive — and at a distance.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.