Black holes are powerful space objects that can pull in nearby stars. But how does this really happen? In this kid-friendly ...

Recent James Webb Space Telescope data confirms a decade-old theory that the universe's earliest supermassive black holes ...

Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond. It ...

Now I really don't want to go and dig those holes.

The presence of supermassive black holes at the heart of the oldest galaxies deeply puzzles astronomers. How could these ...

But now a new study published in Nature suggests a solution to the Little Red Dots mystery. Scientists think young ...

New models explain how small black holes in the early universe beat the clock and grew into massive objects within millions ...

For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...

New simulations show flickering black hole signals arise from unstable shocks inside accretion discs, revealing how matter ...

The phenomenon known as a "black hole" is making news this week, as astronomers have captured the first direct evidence of a black hole spinning — providing groundbreaking insights into the universe’s ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Galaxies have been merging into ever-bigger structures over the course of cosmic history. When galaxies merge, the supermassive black ...