"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

Supermassive black holes are some of the densest objects found within our universe. These cosmic objects are so heavy that they often weigh billions of … The post Turns out supermassive black holes ...

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so intense that nothing, no matter how much energy it has, can escape.Inside the event horizon, gravity supersedes all other forces of nature.

Black holes make up 10 percent of the mass in the early quasar UHZ-1, whereas they compose less than one one-thousandth of a percent of the mass of modern-day galaxies like the giant Messier 87 ...

Astronomers studying black holes in our galaxy, the Milky Way, have discovered what they believe to be a new type of black hole. This previously unknown class of black holes could be smaller than ...

Although astronomers haven't yet proven they exist, primordial black holes could answer some of the current outstanding questions in astronomy, including the nature of dark matter.

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

Although black holes lie at the frontier of astronomy, the idea such objects might exist stretches back more than 200 years. In the late 1700s, ...

Just 1,600 light-years away, the black hole is the closest known to Earth. The good news: It’s dormant, at least for now.

As astronomy datasets grow larger, scientists are scouring them for black holes, hoping to better understand the exotic objects. But the drive to find more black holes is leading some astronomers ...