The astronomy and astrophysics decadal survey for the 2020s lays out plans to search for life on distant planets, understand the formation of galaxies and solve deep mysteries of physics.

Black holes with masses equivalent to millions of suns do put a brake on the birth of new stars, say astronomers. Using machine learning and three

Scientists have debated the origin of two enormous bubbles above and below the Milky Way since 2020. A new study points at a supermassive black hole.

The answer to a complex mystery may involve a chaotic triple drama inside a giant disk of gas around a super massive black hole in a galaxy far, far away.

"What is on the event horizon for a black hole? Where does it come from? Answering these questions would be a step towards realizing a quantum theory of gravity."

Some black holes are isolated in space and therefore near impossible to detect.

It’s long been a mystery how black holes form, now astronomers are on the verge of cracking it.

Hypervelocity stars were discovered only 15 years ago and are the closest things in existence to real shooting stars. They travel at millions of miles per hour, so fast that they can escape from galaxies.

The discovery, based on an unusual event dubbed “the Cow,” may offer astronomers a new way to spot infant compact objects.

Astrophysicist Andrea Ghez discovered the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. Here, she explains the monster at the center of our galaxy.