The deepest mysteries of the universe often begin with the biggest questions. Few are more puzzling than the birth of supermassive black holes. These giants, weighing millions to billions of times ...

In an inversion of the well known scenario of a black hole devouring a star, the researchers propose that a star actually ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest, most distant black hole yet – and it's surprisingly monstrous for its time. Residing in a galaxy called CAPERS-LRD-z9, it was already approximately 300 million ...

Two unusual gravitational-wave events, discovered by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA colloboration, enhance our understanding of black ...

They’re the boogeymen of science fiction, a paradox of science and quite possibly a key to understanding the universe. Scientists have been scrambling to understand the mysterious forces of black ...

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Artist's rendering of the James Webb Telescope in space Editor at Large NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope continues to deliver the goods. Launched on Christmas Day, 2021, it has since sent back a ...

Webb Telescope detected a possible direct collapse black hole between two merging galaxies called the "Infinity Galaxy." ...

The international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration reports the observations of two record-breaking events in gravitational wave observations. They were detected in October and November 2024, and they ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Black holes are well known for swallowing everything around them, which is probably why they get talked about so often. On the flip side, white holes are their mysterious opposite. These theoretical ...