Astronomers may have finally cracked one of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how black holes grew so enormous so fast after ...

Black holes have been that elusive, mystifying entity lurking deep in space, fascinating our every waking thought. The scientists would go on speculating about its existence for decades, but it wasn’t ...

Astronomers have long chased a hard question: how did black holes grow so huge so fast. Researchers at Maynooth University in ...

Supermassive black holes spiral towards each other in this simulation created by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center that shows how they glow in ultraviolet and X-ray light. The black holes are only 40 ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) keep finding the same impossible thing: ancient supermassive black ...

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 ...

Black holes themselves emit no light, but the matter spiralling into them forms a hot, dense accretion disc that radiates ...

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

New simulations show flickering black hole signals arise from unstable shocks inside accretion discs, revealing how matter ...

In a new Physical Review Letters study, researchers have successfully followed a gravitational wave's complete journey from the infinite past to the infinite future as it encounters a black hole.

New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful magnetic forces act on a collapsing, spinning star, they eject vast amounts of ...

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen object called a black hole pulsar. When you purchase through links on our site, ...