A study suggests an unusual LIGO gravitational wave signal may be evidence of a primordial black hole, a long-hypothesized ...

A supermassive black hole sitting at the center of a galaxy just 700 million years after the big bang appears to have been in place before the galaxy itself finished forming. The object, known as ...

Black holes eject powerful energy jets that blow away the surrounding gas to great distances. So how can they continue to ...

Black holes may have an indigestion problem.

Nearly every massive galaxy observed hosts a supermassive black hole at its center. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that some of these supermassive black holes may even be too big for ...

Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don't know, but scientists have long thought it could be the galaxy: Large stars within an existing galaxy consume their fuel and collapse to form ...

Using observations gathered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers have revealed that one supermassive black hole in the early universe must have formed before ...

If starry galaxies are like bright ships on a cosmic sea, then supermassive black holes are like their dark anchors. Weighing ...

A quasar 3. 4 billion light-years away is stirring hot gas across roughly 300,000 light-years, far beyond the galaxy that ...

Scientists may have found a more realistic set of thermodynamic rules for black holes that never stop changing.

For decades, astronomers have pictured galaxies and their central black holes growing together. In the familiar story, a young galaxy forms first. Gas gathers. Stars ignite. Somewhere near the crowded ...

These cosmic giants might one day propel our spacecraft, process unimaginable amounts of data, and even reveal advanced ...