The discovery of a hidden supermassive black hole inside an ancient galaxy suggests that some of our universe's most extreme objects could be invisible unless observed in infrared wavelengths, James ...
Astronomers have caught a cosmic explosion doing something it was never supposed to do, firing off three powerful gamma-ray ...
Astronomers call them LFBOTs—rare and powerful bursts of blue light that shine across billions of light-years and then vanish ...
A supermassive black hole was caught twisting spacetime, offering the clearest real-world evidence yet for Einstein’s ...
In a field dominated by men and scarce resources, astrophysicist Manisha Dwa has carved out a path of her own. She is working to transform astronomy education in Nepal, empowering students and pushing ...
An artist’s impression depicts the accretion disk surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the disk wobbles. In this context, the wobble refers to the orbit of material surrounding the ...
A new international study suggests that the structure of matter surrounding these black holes has changed over billions of ...
The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.
New observations suggest that the relationship between light emitted by quasars has changed over cosmic time, hinting that ...
Virgil is the reddest Little Red Dot discovered so far, and its hidden black hole may offer a clue to the fate of this ...
James Webb Space Telescope confirms the first runaway supermassive black hole in the Cosmic Owl galaxy, observing its tail and bow shock, providing direct evidence of black hole ejection during galaxy ...
Scientists suggest that the dark matter may have powered the universe’s first stars. This allows them to shine before nuclear ...