This illustration shows a red, early-universe dwarf galaxy that hosts a rapidly feeding black hole at its center. Using data ...

At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory, were doing observations of their own. Credit: ...

A team of astronomers believe they have found a black hole in the early universe gobbling down matter at a rate of 40 times ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

Science Supermassive black holes intrigue astronomers with their ability to grow rapidly. A recent discovery reveals an ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered ... Swift helped them determine that ...

For the second time this year, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)—the division of the space agency known for building ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...

Starting with the ISO (Infrared Space Observatory) space telescope launched by ESA (European ... Alongside PRIMA, the AXIS ...

The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant has been studied for over 2 million seconds since the Chandra mission began in 1999, with X-rays captured by Chandra (blue) and infrared data from Webb (orange, ...