Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...

Astronomers had been watching a galaxy far, far away for a long time. It seemed unremarkable. But in December 2019, it suddenly started shining brighter than ever. Now, astronomers believe they ...

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can have billions of solar masses, and observational evidence suggests that all large ...

The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...

Recent results suggest these exotic objects just might help us account for the mysterious force pushing the universe apart.

A recently published study describes an ancient black hole that eats matter far faster than previously thought possible. The ...

In a new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, researchers have strengthened the case that ...

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Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...

Some people make it a tradition every Halloween to watch a certain movie, like John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher Halloween, or ...

Jasmine Warga, “My Heart and Other Black Holes” “Man is fond of counting his troubles ... Dan Reynolds “Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.” ― Steven Tyler “I ...

Black holes are regions in space where an enormous amount of mass is packed into a tiny volume. This creates a gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape. They are created when giant ...