There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There’s ...

An unusually massive black hole in the very early universe may be a kind of exotic, star-less black hole first theorised by Stephen Hawking. In August, Boyuan Liu at the University of Cambridge and ...

Trapped somewhere between the big ideas of "2001" and the fun of a galaxy far, far away, this 1979 movie is a true space oddity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

Scientists may have finally pinned down the nature of some of the most baffling objects in the night sky. In a new study, researchers investigated the identity of "little red dots." These mysterious ...

The biggest black holes in the Universe may be built through chains of violent mergers deep inside crowded star clusters.

Observations of a supermassive black hole located 55 million light-years away from Earth have revealed something completely unexpected: Its magnetic field has flipped. The black hole, dubbed M87* ...

UO astronomer Yvette Cendes and her team published their findings in The Astrophysical Journal. These findings involve a supermassive black hole shredding a star and the climbing energy emitted from ...