"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" ...

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

"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.

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

In a discovery that could change how we understand the universe, a team of astronomers led by Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum has ...

In the quest for advanced civilizations, the universe is not often very forthcoming with its answers. But the recent suggestion by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has set astrophysics and SETI ...

Astronomers have discovered the ‘Infinity’ galaxy — two merging galaxies forming a supermassive black hole — possibly the ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and his team have discovered direct evidence of a black hole birth in a recently-collided galaxy duo named 'Infinity'.

An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...

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

Since then, black holes have become fixtures in science fiction. They're potent symbols of mystery in part because we know so little about them. But a lot has changed in the past decade.