It’s possible that these objects might be the primordial beginnings of the supermassive black holes found in the centers of ...

First images of light from objects in the Universe are now recorded and split into thousands of colour components4MOST will investigate the formation ...

The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) facility, installed on the VISTA telescope at the European Southern ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

The giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), in the constellation Virgo, possesses near its center a supermassive black hole ...

For the first time, astronomers have gotten a detailed look at how a supermassive black hole (SMBH) eats, discovering two ...

Ultra-low frequency nanohertz gravitational waves emanating from pulsars may be revealing the fabric of the universe.

Supermassive black holes stand out for their fundamental role in the evolution of galaxies and the history of the universe.

Astronomers have discovered that a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Circinus galaxy is feeding through two ...

They call it dark matter—an invisible substance thought to make up most of the universe’s mass, sculpting galaxies and ...

The concept of two black holes orbiting one another has been theorized for many years, but recent satellite photography may ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's early observations revealed mysterious little red dots, believed to be compact, early ...