New analysis suggests Webb’s little red dots are young black holes hidden in thick gas, with masses far smaller than first thought.
A newly detected X-ray transient may reveal the first direct evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole consuming a white dwarf. A newly observed cosmic outburst is giving astronomers a rare glimpse ...
A distant quasar is defying two fundamental expectations of black hole physics. The object, known as ID830, is growing at 13 ...
Particle never before seen on Earth detected; it could come from a primordial black hole and the origin of the universe.
Scientists report a possible pulsar at the Milky Way’s center, discovered through radio observations by the Breakthrough Listen team using the Green Bank Telescope, offering a new laboratory for ...
Hidden deep within the Milky Way, a surprising discovery has been made: over 100 black holes tucked away in the Palomar 5 stellar stream. For years, scientists speculated about their existence, but it ...
The investigation could solve the mystery of how supermassive black holes grew so large in the early universe.
The KM3NeT collaboration is a large research group involved in the operation of a neutrino telescope network in the deep ...
An exotic type of dark matter could explain some of the characteristics of our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, but ...
A brilliant star in our nearest galactic neighbor didn’t go out with a bang, it simply faded from sight, leaving scientists ...
Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...
Space is full of surprises, and in 2025, astronomers witnessed one of the most extraordinary events ever registered: a gamma-ray burst (GRB) that lasted seven ...