"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They've certainly sparked and ...

Despite the bounce and subsequent expansion, nothing can leave the event horizon, so it expands into a new region of ...

If Andrea Ghez had listened to her critics, one of the galaxy’s greatest mysteries might yet remain unsolved. The UCLA astronomer won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for proving the existence of a ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...

New insights from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer unprecedented images of the universe at 380,000 years old, revealing ...

A new data release from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is now available for researchers to explore. The collection ...

Often seen as destructive, supermassive black holes could help sustain life under specific conditions, scientists have found.

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, or ACT, collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe’s infancy – the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans. Measuring light ...

Although black hole radiation can be catastrophic in some cases, it may assist life once oxygen has accumulated in the planet ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. These powerful objects sometimes enter active galactic nucleus (AGN) mode, where they pull in gas and ...