"Our findings pave the way for rigorous examinations of black holes and the exploration of new physics in gravity." ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have peered into galaxies that existed at cosmic noon to hunt ravenously ...

Intriguingly, ultralight dark matter might be able to turn into photons (light) — and it's through this process that the ...

How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 billion times the mass of the sun.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revisit a misunderstood black hole thought to be gulping ...

Discover the power of black holes and their jets, and how they impact the formation of stars and potentially habitable worlds.

The last decade has brought a new way to explore the universe. Gravitational wave astronomy, made possible by observatories ...

Every big galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, but scientists are still trying to fully understand how these ...

Massive Black Hole in the Early Universe Spotted Taking a 'Nap' After Overeating Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is 'napping' after ...

A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star ...

Although our universe is mostly normal matter, antimatter isn’t so hard to create — supernovae, black holes, and even bananas ...

The halo is more extended that astronomers originally thought, and contains enough hydrogen gas to resolve the problem of the ...