Astronomers have discovered extraordinarily powerful X-ray jets blasting from two supermassive black holes that are so ...

The first images from the ESA's Proba-3 mission have captured the Sun's mysterious corona by creating artificial eclipses in ...

The quasar, as bright as 500 trillion suns ... by the hungriest and fastest-growing black hole ever seen — one that consumes the equivalent of over one sun's mass a day. The quasar, J0529-4351 ...

Ultraluminous X-ray sources are objects that shine 10 million times as bright as the sun. Scientists have said ... toward a massive object, such as a black hole or a dead star.

Even when you remove the bright stars, the glowing dust and other nearby points of light from the inky, dark sky, a background glow ... is far enough from the sun that scattered sunlight doesn ...

Picture a black hole so powerful that it swallows the equivalent of one sun every day ... very large ones form bright objects called quasars. Located in the middle of galaxies, quasars are ...

At the heart of our pinwheeling galaxy lies a black hole with some four million times the mass of the sun stuffed into an ... “It was so bright you could see it in real time,” says Andrea ...

Planets orbiting a black hole – as they do in the film Interstellar – could sustain life, thanks to a bizarre reversal of the thermodynamics experienced by our sun and Earth.

Representative image via Pexels The sun is hot and bright because of a process called nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion is when the sun's core (the center of the sun) smashes together tiny particles ...