It is a plausible scenario, according to Martin Rees, the cosmologist and former astronomer royal, because of the clumpy way ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Using a chain of atoms in single file to simulate the event horizon of a black hole, a team of physicists in 2022 observed ...

A fresh black hole merger detection has offered the clearest evidence yet for Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s predictions ...

The black hole at the centre of a galaxy more than 50 million light years away is spewing out a jet of extremely hot plasma – ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...

New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could shed light on mysterious “little red dots” first spotted by the space observatory in 2022. In the latest observations, scientists have ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

Images taken of the Universe's most photogenic black hole over time reveal strange and exciting changes in its magnetic field. Using observations obtained using the Event Horizon Telescope in 2017, ...

A series of observations between 2017 and 2021 suggest the supermassive structure’s magnetized plasma is more dynamic than ...

Primordial black holes are hypothetical black holes thought to have formed moments after the Big Bang. Because they supposedly formed about 14 billion years ago, and black holes are thought to ...

Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than ...