Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could ...
By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...
Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...
A decade ago, physicists using twin detectors in Washington State and Louisiana detected gravitational waves—subtle ripples ...
Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...
It's no secret that black holes are some of the weirdest objects in space. Their disks are fluffy like cake, and diving into ...
From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...
Supermassive black holes, regions of space where the pull of gravity is so intense that even light doesn't have enough energy to escape, are often considered terrors of the known universe.
Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.