If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes,...
Technological innovations can seem relentless. In computing, some have proclaimed that “a year in machine learning is a century in...
In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion light-years away....
Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter,...
The origins of extremely high-energy particles that fill the universe—such as protons, electrons, and neutrinos—remain one of the longest-standing mysteries...
The discovery of a large population of compact, red objects, now widely known as Little Red Dots (LRDs) is one...
One of the most powerful black holes in the universe is belching out gas at speeds of up to 10,000...
Gravitational-wave detection technology is poised to make a big leap forward thanks to an instrumentation advance led by physicist Jonathan...
A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of astronomers. This...
A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images...
Scientists first detected ripples in space known as gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes in September 2015....
Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes reside in the centers...
