A peculiar object discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope just 700 million years after the Big Bang could reveal the ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

Dark energy and black holes are two of the most mysterious topics when it comes to space, but they might actually be linked.

Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, such as explosive supernovae or ridiculously ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...

Black holes could soon help us understand dark matter. These extreme objects, long considered light traps, are now becoming observational tools. Through finer analysis of their images, ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.