Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...

"It's an elegant answer, really, because we thought it was a tiny galaxy full of many separate cold stars, but it's actually, ...

The signal, a gamma ray burst, kept repeating — which has never been seen before, and, according to astronomers, should be ...

During the early scientific observations of the distant universe by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists began to notice a peculiar class of objects. They are very red, extremely compact, ...

A newly discovered distant object that astronomers have dubbed “The Cliff” could solve a riddle posed by some of the first ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured a solar-system-size corona around a distant supermassive black hole, ...

For scientists, learning more about how black holes behave is essential to understanding how the universe works. A recent ...

From the early days of JWST's scientific observations of the distant universe, scientists started noticing a population of curious objects. They are very red, extremely compact, and there are a lot of ...

Newly released images of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87 show that the plasma that swirls around ...

We all know that black holes are mysterious giants in the universe, with a mass beyond imagination and gravitational forces so strong that even light cannot escape. Our understanding of black holes ...

The deepest mysteries of the universe often begin with the biggest questions. Few are more puzzling than the birth of supermassive black holes. These giants, weighing millions to billions of times ...