Mysterious black hole has been blasting powerful radio waves for over eight years

Astronomers have discovered a remarkable black hole that has been sending out powerful radio waves for more than eight years, something never seen before. The...

An alternative to black holes: Gravastars with big bangs inside

One foundational part of astrophysics concerns how stellar mass black holes form. When a star several times more massive than our Sun runs out of...

Webb Telescope captures a giant galaxy being born around a growing black hole

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to witness one of the most remarkable events ever observed in the early universe—a giant galaxy...

Ancient black holes may be triggering exploding stars across the universe, study finds

Scientists are exploring a fascinating idea: some of the brilliant stellar explosions seen across the universe may have been triggered by tiny black holes...

A tiny lab-made universe may help solve the mystery of time

Time seems like one of the most basic parts of everyday life. We use clocks to measure it, plan our days around it, and...

Scientists use light echoes to hunt dark matter around giant black holes

Dark matter remains one of the biggest mysteries in science. Scientists cannot see it directly, yet they believe it makes up most of the matter...

Mysterious “little red dot” may be a giant black hole wrapped in gas

Astronomers using NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope may have solved one of the biggest mysteries of the early universe. A strange object known as...

This is how supermassive black holes feed themselves

How supermassive black holes (SMBH) in the center of galaxies accrete material, how they feedback into the surrounding region, and how they regulate these...

Scientists finally find the Milky Way’s missing black hole wind

For more than 50 years, astronomers have searched for a powerful wind blowing from the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Now,...

Webb Telescope discovers giant sleeping black hole from the early universe

Astronomers have discovered the most distant dormant black hole ever detected, offering a rare glimpse into the early universe and how massive black holes...