This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy IC 1954, located 45 million light-years from ...

Before Edwin Hubble, there was Henrietta Leavitt, whose work made other astronomers’ discoveries possible. Her way of looking ...

While what dark energy is precisely remains unknown, as a cosmological constant astronomers could roughly agree on its ...

The group of astronomers are confounded and say the discovery means something is missing from our understanding of black ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations suggest supermassive black hole jets double the frequency of nova explosions. But how?

Star explosions called novas are happening twice as often near a gargantuan black hole jet as they are in the rest of the ...

A dazzling new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a bright spiral galaxy on a diagonal tilt, resembling a ...

"The Milky Way's satellite population is a unique combination of small satellites containing only older stars, and its two ...

Nova Explosions in Double Star Systems Doubled Near Black Hole Jet The supermassive black hole in the core of the giant elliptical galaxy M87 shoots out a blazing bright jet of plasma racing across ...

In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause stars to ...

In a surprise finding, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause ...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy IC 1954, located 45 million light-years from ...