There's no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new study asks whether a ...

Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes "have determined that a giant black hole has destroyed a large star and strewn its contents into space," according to NASA. Credit: ...

The Los Angeles Unified School District is weighing mass layoffs as it faces a deficit of nearly $200 million – driven by ...

Scientists have captured the moment a supergiant star collapses into a black hole, revealing the star's death in an ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...

Somewhere in the universe, enormous black holes are circling each other so slowly that ...

In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.

In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around ...

A supermassive black hole with a case of 'cosmic indigestion' has been burping out the remains of a shredded star for four ...

There is a lot we have yet to understand about the center of the Milky Way—could it be due to a mass of invisible dark matter?

Astronomers have long chased a hard question: how did black holes grow so huge so fast. Researchers at Maynooth University in Ireland say they now have a clearer answer. Their work; led by PhD ...

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s that theorized that when a star underwent direct collapse, it would leave ...