"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

U sing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing supermassive black hole in the infant universe. Existing just 570 million years after ...

"If this turns out to be real, then it’s enormous." ...

Just when you think you understand black holes, the James Webb Space Telescope goes and discovers something that no one has ever seen before.

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

A monstrous black hole in a distant galaxy has earned itself a nickname worthy of a science-fiction horror movie for its gluttonous feasting on any stars that dare get near. Meet "Space Jaws." NASA ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to ...

Scientists have for the first time ever succeeded in getting some data on a newborn black hole that was sent hurtling off into space after two larger ones collided together and "birthed" it. The ...

NASA's newest space telescope — a black hole-hunting observatory — unfolded a giant mast in orbit Thursday (June 21), one of the final steps before it can begin peering deep into the universe. The ...