For decades, astronomers have puzzled over how the supermassive black holes residing in the center of galaxies form. Now, researchers may have found the biggest clue yet to how these monstrous ...

Astronomers may have found tantalizing evidence that dark energy — the mysterious energy driving the accelerating expansion ...

Scientists studying a well-known black hole have made a new discovery about it, maintaining that they have found the first ...

How did supermassive black holes end up at the center of every galaxy? A while back, it wasn't that hard to explain: That's where the highest concentration of matter is, and the black holes had ...

The hungriest known black hole in the early universe has been found, thanks to teamwork between NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Chandra X-ray Observatory. The black hole's voracious ...

Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly early times in the universe's evolution. It's difficult to understand ...

Quasars — blazingly bright galactic cores — owe their brilliance to the intense heat that results as gas whirls around a big black hole ... whose stars add up to 2.6 billion solar masses.

"So, this was a question that I started to think about for the first time." There were a few theories surrounding black holes and their magnetism, but none seemed to add up when accounting for the ...

The review was launched in the wake of July’s “Fixing the foundations” document, in which chancellor Rachel Reeves claimed to uncovered a “£22bn black hole” in the public finances.

A radical hypothesis suggesting black holes could be behind the accelerating expansion of our universe has been stirring up controversy among astronomers. A new study may contain the first ...