A tiny particle that smashed into Earth with a record-shattering energy of 220 petaelectronvolts could be the last scream of ...

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

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has detected new gravitational waves from a merger ...

In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. Black holes are rather ...

The new black hole is 10,000 times heavier than the black hole at centre of our Milky Way galaxy.

The black hole appears to be growing at about 2.4 times the Eddington limit, which means it is consuming the equivalent of ...

The galaxy’s heart hides a cosmic giant that shouldn’t exist so soon after the Big Bang but could explain the mysterious ...

"This tells us that the magnetized plasma swirling near the event horizon is far from static; it's dynamic and complex, ...

A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants ...

The discovery that black hole growth may not be limited to galactic centers could shed light on the role supermassive black ...

Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made ...

Today, let's talk about those incredibly mysterious black holes in the universe! Recently, there has been a groundbreaking ...