Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal monster black holes in the early universe that seem to have grown too ...

A recent study offers a new explanation for the rapid growth of supermassive black holes in the early universe, proposing ...

Researchers propose a new physics model suggesting dark matter played a crucial role in the rapid formation of supermassive ...

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

Supermassive black holes can fuel their own growth by cooling and recycling gas, creating a continuous cycle of feeding and ...

Their model shows that almost all of the stars ... More information: Jiwon Jesse Han et al, Hypervelocity Stars Trace a Supermassive Black Hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, arXiv (2025).

Astronomers have been able to image gas as it travels down a 3 million light-year-long cosmic highway between two growing ...

The Milky Way can be seen as something of a bully, having devoured many smaller galaxies to achieve its vast mass, and ...

Neutrinos are very mysterious particles,” says Damien Dornic, one of the co-authors of a new paper published February 12 in ...