How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, is famously incomplete. As proven by physics Nobel laureate Roger ...

Peculiar James Webb Space Telescope observations seem to show gargantuan black holes in the earliest moments of the universe. New research may explain how they formed, thanks to primordial "seeds".

Under the right circumstances, dust and gas falling into these galactic cores can form a disk of hot material around the ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over how the supermassive black holes residing in the center of galaxies form. Now, ...

The Sun is surrounded by an atmosphere of plasma that we call the corona. It is nearly 1 million degrees Celsius (1.8 million ...

Buried in the treasure trove of the Gaia catalog were two strange black hole systems. These were black holes orbiting ...

Black holes expel powerful jets of charged particles that lead to luminous bursts of gamma rays, all made possible by each ...

NASA's Swift Observatory revealed twin 'monster' black holes devouring a gas cloud in a distant galaxy, creating recurring ...

Black holes have captivated scientists for more than a century. How well do you know these supermassive wonders of the ...

Scientists developed a new model, which provides mathematical evidence that singularities are hidden inside black holes.

Astronomers have long been puzzled by supermassive black holes that seem to have fully formed in the earliest epochs of the ...