A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

Nijmegen master's students predict that LISA, an upcoming space antenna project by the ESA, will detect stronger ...

The results of our study provide the first solid evidence that globular clusters formed through multiple star-formation ...

Stars have a life and death-cycle. Those that are about eight times more massive than the Sun explode as supernovae at the ...

The outward force from its fusion can no longer counteract the star's powerful gravity, and the star collapses in on itself.

A fresh analysis of decades-old X-ray black hole jet data has revealed bright, lumpy features with mysterious speed changes.

Astronomers say they've found an "interstellar tunnel" near our solar system that potentially leads to the vicinity of other ...