The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could make sense of that. Ultra-self-interacting dark matter clumped into ...

Space is already filled with plenty of mysteries, and black holes may be among the strangest. Here are some of the questions ...

Artist's impression of a supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust in four different wavelengths of light. Visible ...

It's no secret that black holes are some of the weirdest objects in space. Their disks are fluffy like cake, and diving into ...

The Milky Way can be seen as something of a bully, having devoured many smaller galaxies to achieve its vast mass, and ...

The strange behavior of hypervelocity stars suggests a nearby dwarf galaxy must contain a supermassive black hole. If so, a ...

Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...

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

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If a (light-emitting) star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects ... State Forensic Science Laboratory, Kolkata.