Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago ...

However, in the entire history of astronomy, we have found just a bare handful of candidate sky objects that might—maybe—prove to be the elusive middle-sized black holes scientists would love ...

Black holes are objects with an intense gravitational pull so strong that not even beams of light, the fastest things in the universe, can escape. This makes them impossible to see directly ...

In a new book release, two scientists combine forces to explain the discoveries, developments and theories made in the realm ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has given us a view of the earliest moments of galaxy formation in the Universe.

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so intense that nothing, no matter how much energy it has, can escape. Inside the event horizon, gravity supersedes all other forces of nature.

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 ...