For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...

"This is a structure we've never seen before, so it could be a new class of dark object." ...

Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...

Newly appointed Cambridge professor says feat would accelerate scientific knowledge by an order of magnitude ...

A comprehensive set of simulations by Flatiron Institute astrophysicists and their colleagues revealed that magnetic fields are responsible for creating black holes with masses in a range previously ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope may solve a riddle from the universe’s beginnings. A compact, distant object called “The Cliff” appears to show that many of the mysterious “little red ...

Recent advancements in observational techniques have led to the capture of high-resolution images of black hole shadows, which are challenging the completeness of Einstein’s general theory of ...

A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has solved the longstanding problem of a "dissonance" in gravitational waves emitted by a black hole. Using high precision computing and a new ...

"This is a structure we've never seen before, so it could be a new class of dark object." ...

A new study from Johns Hopkins University suggests that supermassive black holes—those cosmic behemoths lurking at the centers of galaxies—might already be generating the kinds of high-energy particle ...

"If they were purely made up of stars, they would be the densest galaxies in the universe." ...