An incredible object form by two colliding galaxies may be the site of a recently formed supermassive black hole.

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

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.

A short-lived ripple in space-time revealed that two black holes merged into a giant black hole with the mass of 225 suns ...

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

“Third, as an unexpected bonus, it turns out that both galaxy nuclei also have an active supermassive black hole. So, this ...

Speaking at a local restaurant, University of Virginia astronomers share the wonders of the universe, hard science and some ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...

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