The investigation could solve the mystery of how supermassive black holes grew so large in the early universe.

The curious minds at What If predict the effects if a black hole flew by Earth at light speed, revealing gravitational tidal forces, orbit disruption, and potential extinction events.

The KM3NeT collaboration is a large research group involved in the operation of a neutrino telescope network in the deep Mediterranean Sea, with the aim of detecting high-energy neutrino events. These ...

An exotic type of dark matter could explain some of the characteristics of our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, but many cosmologists are leery of the idea ...

Observations of a distant quasar reveal that supermassive black holes may suppress star formation across intergalactic distances.

When people picture a deadly hunter, they usually imagine something large and intimidating. In reality, one of the most efficient predators on Earth is smaller than many house cats.

The simulations showed that the gravity hole was initially much less pronounced. Between roughly 50 million and 30 million years ago, however, it intensified significantly. This period coincides with ...

Another describes a long straight contrail cutting across a galaxy called NGC3627. This one is likely caused by a black hole of about 2 million times the mass of the sun, travelling at 300km/s. Its ...

Intense radiation emitted by active supermassive black holes—thought to reside at the center of most, if not all, galaxies—can slow star growth not just in their host galaxy, but also in galaxies ...

Many of us remember all too well our childhood bout of chickenpox: those itchy, scabby, red spots that appeared all over our ...

All the “normal” matter, like the stars, gas, dust, and people, is called baryonic matter, and it’s basically the tiny visible fraction of a universe that’s mostly invisible and still not fully ...

A stellar black hole is one that’s created from the gravitational collapse of particularly massive stars, typically greater than eight solar masses. For context, one solar mass is about equivalent to ...