"Black holes are the ultimate cosmic fossils," Jani said. "The masses of black holes reported in this new analysis have remained highly speculative in astronomy. This new population of black holes ...

A newly analyzed radio image reveals twin lobes stretching roughly 66,000 light-years on each side of a quasar called ...

In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes (about five to 50 times the ...

Black holes, cosmic entities with immense gravity, trap everything, even light. These form from collapsed massive stars, ...

With the upcoming LIGO India facility and India’s proposed Daksha mission, designed to scan the whole sky for such flashes, ...

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.

A new publication introduces the rapidly growing field of multi-messenger gravitational lensing, which combines ...

Discover interesting facts about what black holes are, how they form and what would happen if you fell into one.

NTNU researchers may have found the answer to one of the big, unanswered questions in physics. The universe is full of ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) in an area of the sky called COSMOS ...

From emerging stars to long-established millionaires and billionaires, a diverse group of people operate the best-known local ...

This finding challenges established theories about how galaxies and black holes evolve together, especially since these winds carry over 1,000 times more energy than previously known galactic ...