1. Andromeda Galaxy is the closest spiral galaxy at 2.5 million light-years, it’s massive, visible to the naked eye, and ...

Some 32 million light-years away, a galaxy known as M74 or the "Phantom ... surveys suggests LRDs may be a new population of black holes. We don’t yet know why these ancient black holes grew ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of operation, Webb has captured some truly stunning cosmic vistas, complete ...

Supermassive black holes are behemoths that weigh in at several million to billion times the mass of our own sun. Like their ...

An unlucky star came into contact with a roaming black hole and was ripped apart in a peculiar celestial occurrence.

Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering ...

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

Astronomers have observed a tidal disruption event, AT2024tvd, caused by a rogue supermassive black hole devouring a star far from its galaxy's center. This marks the first time a TDE has been ...

What is Space Jaws? A covert black hole revealed itself to astronomers in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as ...