This week, researchers hypothesized that human culture is distinguished from cultures of other species like whales by unique ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

Gas swirling around black holes forms disks that are among the most effective energy converters in the universe, emitting ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

Researchers have discovered something groundbreaking in the world of astrophysics—an incredible system where not one, but a ...

What’s on the other side of a black hole? That’s one of the biggest mysteries in space science! Black holes are super strong gravity pits, so once anything crosses the "event horizon" (their point of ...

A low-mass supermassive black hole appears to be consuming matter at over 40 times the theoretical limit. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered LID-568, a supermassive black hole ...

But the Webb may have just identified a solution to the dilemma as well. It has spotted a black hole that appears to have ...

Scientists have strengthened the potential connection between dark energy and black holes. New research suggests that as more ...