At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

"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.

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

Hidden in the ‘Infinity Galaxy,’ a black hole floats in space where none should exist, upending old ideas about black hole birth.

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

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