Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

In the modern universe, for galaxies close to our own Milky Way, supermassive black holes tend to have masses equal to around ...

Small primordial black holes, born in the first moments of the Universe, might have reached supermassive sizes extremely ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of ...

The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

Priyamvada Natarajan has spent decades exploring some of the universe’s most persistent mysteries, particularly the unseen ...

Black holes are remarkable astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape them. The most gigantic ones, known as “supermassive” black holes, can weigh ...