During a press conference at the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Phoenix, Devesh Nandal from the Center ...

QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.

At the heart of nearly every galaxy lurks a cosmic giant: a supermassive black hole. These mysterious objects, millions to billions of times more massive than our Sun, exert such powerful gravity that ...

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

The knowledge that the galaxies in this Universe have black holes at their centers came to us gradually, like all things that have to do with space, starting in the 1970s. In the time that has passed ...

The oldest and most distant black hole known to scientists dates back 13.3 billion years ago, when our universe was still in its teething stage, according to findings published this month. The ...

Cutting-edge supercomputer simulations reveal intricate processes around black holes, improving our understanding of ...

Learn how radio observations uncovered unusually hot gas inside a young galaxy cluster, revealing how black holes and star ...

In 2023, scientists detected the gravitational waves from a black hole collision that seemed impossible. New research finally explains how this "forbidden" black hole came to be, and what it can teach ...

In a patch of sky about 1. 2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three galaxies caught in ...

New research explores how gravitational waves from black hole systems could help scientists study dark matter, using improved models and future detectors like LISA ...

There's a gap in black hole masses, and experts believe here is where 'lite intermediate black holes' reside. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...