Why Do Black Holes Form? Black holes form when a huge amount of matter is squeezed into a very small space. Cram enough ...

Often seen as destructive, supermassive black holes could help sustain life under specific conditions, scientists have found.

Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could make sense of that. Ultra-self-interacting dark matter clumped into ...

Astronomers also suspect that a class of objects called intermediate-mass black holes exist in the universe, although evidence for them is so far debatable. No matter their starting size ...

Matteo Paz built a machine-learning algorithm in high school to analyze heaps of data for NASA. He just won a $250,000 ...

First captured in 2022, the international astrophysicists say that the black hole — an astronomical object with a gravitational pull so strong that nothing can escape it — appears to be ...

Under this model, the black hole transitions into a white hole, with the hole's singularity and horizons defined as regions ...