New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

A high-speed crash between two dwarf galaxies might explain a unique feature in space – and provide useful information on ...

Astronomers have observed two distant galaxies that are heavily distorted. This spectacular image is caused by the presence ...

Astronomers have uncovered what they say just might be the heaviest black hole we've ever seen. The "ultramassive" black hole is located at the center … The post Scientists claim they just discovered ...

Astronomers have uncovered what may be the heaviest black hole ever directly measured. Located at the center of a galaxy nearly six billion light-years away, this ultramassive cosmic monster is ...

The black hole is located 11.6 billion light-years from Earth when the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the leftover glow from the Big Bang, was much denser than it is now.

Black holes are the notorious loners of the universe since getting close to them usually means catastrophic destruction. The latest victim who attempted friendship with one of these hungry giants ...

Rare Cosmic Event: Supermassive Black Hole Wakes Up After 20-Year Slumber, Stuns Astronomers This event marks the first real-time observation of a black hole transitioning from a quiescent to an ...

In the vastness of the Universe, some discoveries remind us how much we still have to learn. A recent study on Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitational lensing phenomenon, is a striking example. Cosmic ...