Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could ...

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...

Recent research using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Very Large Telescope reveals that black holes are not just passive consumers ...

Surprisingly, the black hole driving this colossal jet is modest by quasar standards, weighing 450 million times the mass of ...

The black holes rip the stars apart and consume their stellar debris — becoming more massive, Northwestern explained. This increases their gravitational pull and draws them together as they orbit..

Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as ...

Astronomers used an array of telescopes to find the most massive radio jet in the early universe. The celestial object is ...

Binary black holes, systems consisting of two black holes in close orbit around each other, synchronize their spins before ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently made observations about galaxy clusters that will help shape our ...

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

New findings from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope explain the Phoenix cluster’s mysterious starburst. Data confirm the ...