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

Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can ...

The recent discovery of a stupendously powerful neutrino has left scientists scratching their heads. New research suggests it ...

New research challenges our understanding of black holes, proposing they may not be cosmic dead ends after all.

A new study suggests our observable universe may be trapped inside a black hole after examining a James Webb Space Telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found perhaps its most profound discovery to date. The uncovered preferred direction for ...

Astronomers have uncovered a baffling cosmic anomaly — a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 5084 that appears to be ...

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 ...

The origin of the universe and everything that happened during its early days is and always will be one of the great mysteries for mankind. Only a small percentage of the beginning ...

However, in the entire history of astronomy, we have found just a bare handful of candidate sky objects that might—maybe—prove to be the elusive middle-sized black holes scientists would love ...

2025 — Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer ...

Researchers May Have Found Evidence of Stephen Hawking's 'Unproven Primordial Black Hole Theory' at the Bottom of the Sea ...