“Our analysis shows that the blast was sparked by a catastrophic encounter with a black hole companion, and is the strongest ...

With help from AI, astronomers have spotted a never-before-seen kind of supernova that seems to have been blowing up just as ...

New measurements of the galaxy at the heart of the “Cosmic Horseshoe” indicate that it could house the most massive object ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an ...

An international team of astronomers using NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged our understanding ...

"We're now entering an era where we can automatically catch these rare events as they happen, not just after the fact." ...

The massive " Cosmic Horseshoe " galaxy system likely hosts a colossal black hole measuring 36 billion times the mass of our ...

Black holes are dark, menacing objects with gravity so intense that not even light can escape, so you don’t want to mess with ...

Astronomers using the James Webb telescope have zoomed in on a 'Little Red Dot' that existed just 500 million years after the ...

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...

Astronomers spotted the ultramassive black hole inside the Cosmic Horseshoe, an equally gargantuan galaxy so powerful that it ...

We call black holes in this gap lite intermediate mass black holes or lite IMBHs, because they are the least massive black holes that we expect to exist from sources other than stars. They are no ...