The theory goes that black holes accrete material, often from nearby stars. However the theory also suggests there is a limit to how big a black hole can grow due to accretion and certainly shouldn’t ...
Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it ...
As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.
Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can have billions of solar masses, and observational evidence suggests that all large ...
Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) can have billions of solar masses, and observational evidence suggests that all large ...
The kilonova briefly mimicked the conditions immediately following the Big Bang, and allowed scientists to confirm the source ...
A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.
Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...
How did supermassive black holes get big so fast? Astrophysicist Souphie Koudmani tells us how she and her colleagues are finding out.
As you can probably imagine by this point, falling into a black hole would be terrifying. "If you fell into a black hole, the gravitational pull would stretch you out in a process called ...
Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...