An MIT-led team used bright radio bursts to illuminate a vast source of matter that was previously unaccounted for.

Physicists have found signs of colliding black holes that are themselves products of previous black hole smash-ups.

By analyzing X-ray reverberations and other astrophysical data, Erin Kara seeks to understand the most extreme objects in the universe.

MIT Haystack Observatory researchers use SOFIA observations to reveal how magnetic fields guide the assembly of one of our galaxy's most active high-mass star-forming regions.

When the universe was just 850 million years old, this voracious black hole was already surprisingly mature, a new study finds.