Astronomers at Penn State have nicknamed the objects “universe breakers,” which may be unusual black hole atmospheres and could represent a missing link in the fast growth of supermassive black holes.

Newly released images of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87 show that the plasma that swirls around ...

For the first time, scientists measured a newborn black hole that "kicked" off into space after 2 larger black holes merged ...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, with a substantial contribution from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), has unveiled new, detailed images of the supermassive black ...

Scientists have captured the clearest signal yet of a black hole collision, confirming Stephen Hawking's theory.

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...

Where did these energy pulses come from? Why had they gone unnoticed before, only to suddenly appear now? I started ...

Two black holes merged together 2.4 billion light years away from Earth, and scientists have just figured out how fast the newborn ricocheted, and in which direction.

Since that day, LIGO — composed of two highly sensitive laser interferometers located in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, ...

When LIGO detected gravitational waves unleashed from two colliding black holes for the first time in science history, it set off a whole new era in astronomy.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...

Today, let's talk about a super mysterious cosmic discovery! In a neighboring galaxy of the Milky Way, there is a 'wandering ...