Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered an extreme version of "little red dots" dubbed "The Cliff." Its ...

One of the most powerful black holes in the universe is belching out gas at speeds of up to 10,000 kilometers per second, ...

Astronomers detected a black hole displaced nearly a kiloparsec from the center of a dwarf galaxy 230 million light-years ...

"This tells us that the magnetized plasma swirling near the event horizon is far from static; it's dynamic and complex, ...

Event Horizon Telescope data reveal the magnetic field around M87* shifted, weakened and then flipped, defying theoretical expectations.

Astronomy has a way of surprising you. When you believe the universe has yielded its biggest secrets, distant giants and ...

Since the 1970s, astronomers have predicted that Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, ...

New observations of M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, revealed that the supermassive blackhole has experienced several ...

The Big Bang may have spawned these theoretical black holes, whose lives are thought to end in a burst of extremely energetic particles.

The polarity of a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of M87, a galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, ...

Black holes like the one shown in this illustration can grow astonishingly massive by feeding on immense amounts of matter. But just how big can they get? In the early 1960s astronomers discovered a ...