One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Could the Universe have been born inside a black hole? This question, raised by a team of scientists, challenges the Big Bang ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

Black hole formation could be a little Big Bang in reverse, coupling the matter of a dying star with dark energy, the mysterious force driving the accelerating expansion of the universe.

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only are ENTs far brighter than normal tidal disruption events, but they remain ...

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.

For the first time, physicists have observed a “black hole triple” in space.This new system is about 8,000 light years away from Earth and is made up of a central black hole that is in the act ...

Black holes may form and grow quietly inside stars due to the accumulation of dark matter, potentially explaining the existence of near- and sub-solar-mass black holes.

An artist's impression shows a triple star system called V404 Cygni with a black hole and two ordinary stars. Material siphoned from the deformed nearby star (left) is pictured swirling around the ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

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