A remarkable black hole, located 270 million light-years away in the Draco constellation, has become the center of ...

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

Astronomers detected X-ray flashes from the black hole that increased in frequency from one every 18 minutes to one every ...

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Yale researchers among those who discovered three “ultra-massive” galaxies, which were formed shortly after the Big Bang and ...

Astronomers have detected the most ancient blazar ever observed, originating from the early universe and emitting a beam of ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some ...

Regular pulses of X-ray radiation emanating from a supermassive black hole could be explained by a white dwarf star on the ...

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A large international team of scientists has observed a phenomenon that astronomers didn't ever expect to see happen in real ...