Called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), the project's ultimate goal is baked into its name: take pictures of the event horizon, or point-of-no-return for a black hole.

Perhaps, it would be a million dollar moment, when the two spiral galaxies spiraled into each other, giving birth to a brilliant ring of black holes and neutron stars. Yes, the collision took place about 300 million light-years from Earth, deep in the constellation Volans.

South Africa has launched a 64-dish largest radio telescope in Carnarvon in the Northern Cape. Named as “MeerKAT”, it is believed to be the world's largest radio telescope of its kind. The device has been initiated by South Africa’s Deputy President David Mabuza

In a complex universe - full of galaxies, black holes and quasars - there is existence of life and its emergence has always been a big question for the researchers and scientists. For tens of millions of years, the universe was a dark expanse, full of ionized hydrogen and helium. But at some point - researchers aren’t sure when - these swirling gasses ignited the first stars. The period is known as Cosmic Dawn.

The scientists have found a supermassive black hole that eats up massive violent stars and the hot cosmic gas then releases burps in the form of highly charged particles having energy in huge amount.

Scientists have found evidence that supermassive black holes prevent formation of stars in some smaller galaxies, in what they believe decodes a cosmic mystery.

Black holes are famous for their exceptional capability of pulling anything through them and disappear it with its strong magnetic field; but in a latest discovery, the scientists have found out that the magnetic field at black holes is not that powerful as expected.

British physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking's PhD thesis was accessed more than two million times "from every corner of the globe" within days of it being made available to the public, a media report said on Saturday.

The PhD thesis by Stephen Hawking, world's most famous living scientist, garnered such a huge response that the host website was crashed in minutes after it was made available for public reading online.

Originally predicted in the early 20th century by Albert Einstein, gravitational waves -- ripples in space and time -- were not detected until 2015, when the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) identified the first such signal from two merging black holes.