Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could ...
The new analog could help us learn more about the elusive radiation that is believed to be emitted by real black holes out in space. Black holes are by far one of the most mysterious objects ...
The way this "accretion disk" of infalling matter spins can tell scientists a lot about a particular black hole — for example, its size and its orientation in space. It also offers insight into ...
These jets become elusive the farther back in time astronomers try to look because of the so-called cosmic microwave background. The ancient radiation, the earliest fossil of light from 380,000 years ...
Black holes are famous for being insatiable concentrations of gravity from which not even light can escape. And if they floated through space all on their lonesome, it might be the end of the ...
Researchers have discovered the largest black hole plasma jets ever in a galaxy almost 7 billion light years away from Earth.
Astronomers have discovered a gigantic black hole named Gaia BH3 hiding close to the earth, the third of its kind. All three were discovered by the European Space Agency’s Gaia telescope ...