Astronomers found a massive black hole that spent ages in a "quiet" phase when everything around it in the early universe ...

Scientists are diving deep into the origins of supermassive black holes, using recent gravitational wave detections as a key ...

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of ...

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"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation ...

Astronomers pinned down the origins of at least one fast radio burst, a brief and brilliant explosion of radio waves emitted by an extremely compact object. The team's novel technique might also ...

In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...

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In December 2024, a rare celestial event known as the Black Moon will occur, marking the second new moon in a single month.

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...

But the newfound duo, dubbed D9, suggests that some stellar pairs can, in fact, hang on near a black hole, if only for a short while. Astronomers estimate the stars are about 2.7 million years old ...