At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...
A ‘superflare’ 10 trillion times brighter than the Sun is confirmed as the record-holder for both luminosity and distance.
The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a ravenous supermassive black hole that existed during a ...
Pairs of black holes have been detected in the past through their gravitational effects, but until now, scientists have never ...
Astronomers caught a rogue black hole tearing apart a star 2,600 light-years from its galaxy’s center — a first-of-its-kind ...
Physicists have analyzed two enormous black hole mergers that happened one month apart and have come up with tantalizing ...