In a new book release, two scientists combine forces to explain the discoveries, developments and theories made in the realm ...

Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could make sense of that. Ultra-self-interacting dark matter clumped into ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know ...

When stars cease to fuse hydrogen at the end of their lifetime, they collapse in on themselves, condensing into a ...

We simply don't know. However, scientists are hunting intermediate black holes with tools like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, ...

Intermediate-mass black holes—somewhere between stellar-mass and supermassive—are the rarest type of black hole in the universe. 300 of these elusive black holes were recently observed by NSF ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...

Astronomers have uncovered a baffling cosmic anomaly — a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 5084 that appears to be ...

identified a staggering 2,500 candidate dwarf galaxies with feeding black holes at their centers and a further 300 intermediate-mass "missing link" black hole candidates — making it the largest haul ...

In the most detailed look at that black hole ever undertaken ... paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, these types of flares usually burst out of accretion disks, or swirling ...

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