In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion ...

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, ...

New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful ...

Monster black holes entered the cosmic scene soon after the Universe’s birth and grew rapidly, reaching millions or even ...

A colossal black hole 10 billion light-years away has been caught devouring one of the universe’s biggest stars, unleashing a ...

Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns ...

A mathematical model suggests that when a pair of black holes gets quantum entangled, this can give rise to a lumpy ...

The fabric of spacetime can be distorted by immense gravity, and black holes show the most extreme version of this, where ...

A new study suggests that during a potential phase of primordial matter domination, particle interactions may have led to the formation of the universe’s first compact cosmic objects. Less than a ...

Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed ...

Researcher Matthew Graham said scientists didn't initially "believe the numbers about the energy" emitting from the cosmic ...

A giant star that is still being consumed by a supermassive black hole may have caused the largest flare of its kind ever seen, astronomers say.