Astrophysics

As the sun slips beneath the horizon, casting its golden embrace over the Messinian Gulf, one cannot help but marvel at this bewitching region

Astronomers said on April 26 that for the first time they have confirmed what ignites quasars, the brightest and most powerful objects in the universe, which put galaxies in their "death throes."

These celestial behemoths form when two galaxies smash into each other, the astronomers said, warning that this could be the Milky Way's fate in a few billion years.

One of the largest black holes ever recorded has been discovered using a new technique that could spot thousands more of the insatiable celestial monsters in the coming years, according to astronomers.

The ultramassive black hole, one of just four ever observed, is more than 30 billion times the mass of the Sun, a new study said.

It releases tremendous amounts of energy in the process, which is the process that powers stars like the Sun

What are we to make of the strange gravitational pull that empty boxes have on cats?

The findings, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, are a result of 27 years of observations

One black hole is nice, but astrophysicists can do a lot more science with 50 of them

NASA has detected a massive thermonuclear explosion in space. The culprit appears to be a distant pulsar, according to the space agency - the remains of a star that exploded into a supernova but was too small to form a black hole.

American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, known for his significant contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics, is coming to Athens to deliver a lecture at the Eugenides Foundation.

A new video released by NASA reveals what it sounds like when the Sun moves, waves, loops and erupts to our ears, and how it might help them study the giant star.

The U.S. space agency says using data captured by the European Space Agency and its own Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, NASA has been able to study the "dynamic movement" of our Sun for more than 20 years.