How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

For more than 100 years, physicists have known — at least on paper — that spinning black holes should stir the universe ...

Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...

Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...

New observations suggest that the relationship between light emitted by quasars has changed over cosmic time, hinting that ...

A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 sparks ultra-fast winds, offering new clues about ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has provided evidence of 'monster stars' in the early universe, explaining the existence of ...

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 ...

The X‑arithmetic technique offers a powerful new way to map the physics of other galactic structures across the universe and ...

What could force a supermassive black hole (SMBH) out of its host galaxy? They can have hundreds of millions, even billions ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a black hole, they glow with fierce intensity across the light spectrum. Now, a ...

Black holes, born from dying stars, are cosmic giants that grow by consuming matter and merging with others. While invisible ...