Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to date, providing the clearest ...

Black holes may appear to be shaped like a doughnut, but the truth is more complicated than that, explain our readers ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified massive, short-lived stars that are essentially 'seeds' for the universe's ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever before. By combining Einstein’s gravity with realistic behavior of light and ...

Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...

In a patch of sky about 1. 2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three galaxies caught in ...

Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a ...

Black holes are, of course, awesome. But, for scientists, they are more awesome. If a rainbow is marvellous, then understanding how all the colors of the rainbow are present, unified, in ordinary ...

A new study has investigated stellar mass black holes, which are black holes with masses between a few to some hundred solar masses, that originated at the end of the life of massive stars. According ...