Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

However, although photons of light existed since the first second after the Big Bang, they could not yet shine across the ...

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

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

A new kind of stellar explosion, far brighter and longer-lasting than supernovae, may help scientists explore the secrets of ...