A small ripple that triggers a tidal wave. In the primordial Universe, tiny quantum fluctuations could have had a profound ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

Scientists have found the "hungriest" black hole that is "feasting" on matter faster than experts previously thought possible ...

Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly ...

A third, tenuously held companion to the known binary V404 Cygni may signal that at least some black holes form "gently." ...

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

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The image shows the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of our galaxy about 26,000 light-years away.

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...

Hypothetically, black hole masses can range all the way from ... an assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech and an adjunct scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany ...

But the Webb may have just identified a solution to the dilemma as well. It has spotted a black hole that appears to have ...