Astronomers at Penn State have nicknamed the objects “universe breakers,” which may be unusual black hole atmospheres and could represent a missing link in the fast growth of supermassive black holes.

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...

When LIGO detected gravitational waves unleashed from two colliding black holes for the first time in science history, it set off a whole new era in astronomy.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...

New research published this week confirms Stephen Hawking's 1971 theory that the surface area of black holes never shrinks, ...

A newly discovered distant object that astronomers have dubbed “The Cliff” could solve a riddle posed by some of the first ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

Using a powerful combination of the Subaru Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered ...

Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and ...

A team of astronomers have detected an AGN in a distant dwarf galaxy about 230 million light years away. In a twist, this ...