Astronomers call these cosmic ghosts "light echoes" — and that's what high-school junior Julian Shapiro found while scanning the cosmos for supernova remnants. "There are these outer regions of gas ...

"I think that the simplest explanation of the rotating universe is the universe was born in a rotating black hole." ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

"Many supermassive black holes may lie concealed within dusty regions of the early universe, undetected," said astronomer ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. 2.7 billion light years away, in a galaxy cluster known as Abell 1201, an ultramassive ...

Five decades ago, famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking theorized that the Big Bang may have flooded the universe with tiny black holes. Now, researchers believe they may have seen one explode.

The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They’ve certainly sparked and stretched our imaginations, even in popular ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

Feb. 19, 2025 — Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an ...