"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...

New observations of several distant giant black holes suggest the mysterious entities play a strong role in shaping their ...

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

NASA, ESA, and ground observatories have detected powerful space explosions caused by black holes tearing apart massive stars ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Black holes, once purely theoretical, are now observable phenomena, offering insights into the universe. Their intense ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.