The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they ...

"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...

A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...

"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.

Astronomers using data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a spectacular cosmic object they're ...

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

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...