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 ...

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

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

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

Black holes and soccer balls don't have much in common, but if black holes are curved when kicked, it might say something ...

In a groundbreaking follow-up to their 2019 reveal of the first black hole image, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team has ...

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

Enjoy a free stargazing lecture followed by a Q&A panel and guided stargazing with telescopes (weather permitting). By ...

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

Published last week in the journal Nature Astronomy, the findings help further illuminate just how black holes are able to thrive for billions of years, astronomers say. Supermassive black holes ...