Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...

Astronomers have discovered what they are calling the largest-known structure in the universe. Named "Quipu" after an Incan ...

Astronomers discover Inkathazo, a massive giant radio galaxy spanning 3 million light-years, using South Africa's MeerKAT ...

Is it possible to understand the universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

New research shows black holes can trigger gas cooling, creating fuel for their own feeding. This process keeps them growing ...

Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

In the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, astronomers spotted the largest explosion in the universe consisting of energy equal to a ...

The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and managed by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory. It’s a precursor to ...

Astronomers have discovered the largest structure in the universe, named Quipu. It has a mass of 200 quadrillion solar masses ...

We can't help ourselves but wonder about life elsewhere in the universe. Any hint of a biosignature or even a faint, ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...