When a star gets too close to a black hole, the gravity of the black hole changes what happens next in really big ways. They give us a chance to see h.

Planets usually stay close to their host stars, tracing steady paths shaped by gravity. Yet some planets break free and drift ...

A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have ...

A century after Albert Einstein sketched out his radical picture of gravity, astronomers have now watched a black hole ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

Interstellar objects normally pass through softly, catching the attention of only a few astronomers before vanishing back ...

The most striking claim about 3I/ATLAS is its estimated age range of 8-14 billion years. This analysis, led by Michele ...

A wobbling jet from a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy is blasting gas out at a rate high enough to suppress star formation.

Their analysis showed that the planet lies about 3,000 parsecs, or just under 10,000 light-years, from Earth. Its mass is ...

Astronomers have made the first direct observation of a spinning black hole twisting the very fabric of spacetime, a ...

Astronomers have seen spacetime itself wobble near a spinning black hole for the first time. The discovery, revealed during a star’s destruction, confirms a major prediction of Einstein’s theory of ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rogue planet, one that doesn't orbit a star, by measuring ...