Small primordial black holes, born in the first moments of the Universe, might have reached supermassive sizes extremely ...

Astronomers have uncovered a surprising behavior in black holes that has upended long-standing theories about how these ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating ...

A new kind of stellar explosion, far brighter and longer-lasting than supernovae, may help scientists explore the secrets of ...

Everything in space—from Earth and the sun to black holes—accounts for just 15% of all matter in the universe. The rest of ...

New evidence and properties of intermediate-mass black holes have been discovered with help from RIT researchers, as ...

Astronomers have identified a new kind of cosmic explosion extreme nuclear transients so powerful they outshine typical ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black ...

Whereas scientists have observed plenty of stellar mass black holes and SMBHs, evidence of IMBHs has been a lot harder to ...