New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

The outer space is a fascinating place that will neve cease to amaze us, with incredible views that gives us a perspective of ...

RIT researchers will be co-investigators on nine of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Cycle 4 programs set to begin in early ...

In thelatest release from NASA, stunning new images of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) have captured the attention of the global ...

However, these are not the star-swallowing, galaxy-churning supermassive black holes that appear in science-fiction blockbusters like Interstellar. Instead, they are microscopic singularities no ...

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...

Among the most studied black holes are those in the galaxy known as M87 and one at the center of our own. With this finer lens, researchers hope to uncover subtle details about their behavior.

A supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of a relatively close galaxy is firing off a rapid-fire slew of ultrafast gas "bullets" into the surrounding galaxy. This is the conclusion of an ...

The photo suggests that interstellar 'scraps' of matter are being strewn into space as the hungry black hole chows down on its dinner. "At the very center of nearly every galaxy is a supermassive ...

A spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 exhibits powerful winds of material blowing from the supermassive black hole located at its core in a new photo taken by the Very Large Telescope in Chile.