A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

Sebastian Mizera just joined the physics department as an assistant professor, researching quantum field theory.

The team used two of the most powerful supercomputers, capable of performing a quintillion operations per second.

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

Students in a joint UT Austin and UTSA astronomy course say they have zeroed in on an unexpectedly massive black hole parked ...

Astronomers have long believed that the region around the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, is one of the most ...