One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Could the Universe have been born inside a black hole? This question, raised by a team of scientists, challenges the Big Bang ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Black hole formation could be a little Big Bang in reverse, ... "In the very early universe, when gravity was very strong, a form of dark energy caused the universe to exponentially inflate.

The Hubble Space Telescope is making waves again, this time for a snapshot of a spiral galaxy located 250 million light-years ...

Black holes form when a huge amount of matter is squeezed into a very small space. Cram enough matter into a given radius, and it can create a gravity well so deep that nothing can get out.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Supermassive black holes — with masses ranging from millions to billions of times that of our sun — sit at the centers of most large galaxies. Astronomers have observed ...

For the first time, physicists have observed a “black hole triple” in space.This new system is about 8,000 light years away from Earth and is made up of a central black hole that is in the act ...

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