Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.

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As if dark energy weren't already mysterious and baffling enough, new research suggests that this unknown force may not be ...

A team of astrophysicists has unveiled how colossal stars thousands of times more massive than the Sun shaped the earliest ...

A new theory claims dark matter and dark energy don’t exist — they’re just side effects of the universe’s changing forces. By ...

Learn what a black hole is, how it forms, and how astronomers detect it. Understand the science behind black holes and their ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

It is widely accepted that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, but now researchers say our measurements of the ...

Located in the constellation Leo, spiral galaxy NGC 3370 has long been a favorite among astronomers. NGC 3370 is part of a ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

Researcher Matthew Graham said scientists didn't initially "believe the numbers about the energy" emitting from the cosmic ...