A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other ...

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

This is as close to a smoking gun as we’re likely ever going to get, Yale University’s Pieter van Dokkum announced, after his ...

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, ...

A Yale University-led team of scientists say they’ve made a groundbreaking discovery: the possible birth of a supermassive ...

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

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 ...

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

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

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.