In 2020, astronomers identified a nearby star system that appeared to contain something phenomenal: the closest black hole to ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

"We would need to consider the possibility that the source was created (or trapped as a primordial black hole) by a highly advanced technological civilization," Harvard's Avi Loeb writes.

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

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

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

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

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