Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

The team used two of the most powerful supercomputers, capable of performing a quintillion operations per second.

In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

The detection of two singular black hole mergers, only one month apart in late 2024, improves our understanding of the nature ...

A black bear moved into a 63-year-old Altadena homeowner's crawl space after the Eaton Fire displaced wildlife.

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

Scientists may have found the first hints of primordial black holes, born in the very first seconds of the Big Bang.

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...

A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may account for the small red dots seen in ...

A new mathematical model of a wormhole suggests that two black holes can be “cut and pasted.” Cut and paste is an official ...

In the early universe, moments after the Big Bang and cosmic inflation, clusters of exotic, massive particles could have ...