Woven through the universe are forces, often unseen, that dictate its grand design. For example, at the very heart of nearly every galaxy, we find a supermassive black hole. This isn't just some ...

It's nicknamed Jetty McJetface.

On July 2, 2025, the China-led Einstein Probe (EP) space telescope detected an exceptionally bright X-ray source whose ...

Supermassive black holes appear early in the universe, too big to match growth models. New simulations suggest even "light seed” black holes could bulk up rapidly through frenzied feeding bursts ...

An international collaboration of astrophysicists that includes researchers from Yale has created and tested a detection ...

M87 lies at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, about 55 million light-years from Earth. The black hole, with a mass ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to look back in time and study galaxies that existed shortly after the Big ...

Gigantic black holes lurk at the center of virtually every galaxy, including ours, but we've lacked a precise picture of what ...

Astronomers have found a potential new piece of the ongoing puzzle over “little red dots” (LRDs). It’s a distant smudge in ...

A neutrino slammed into Earth in 2023 with so much energy that it looked almost unreal. The particle carried about 220 ...

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...

New models explain how small black holes in the early universe beat the clock and grew into massive objects within millions of years.