Dark Disguise New research is rekindling an old hypothesis about the nature of black holes that could resolve a fundamental ...

"Finding supermassive black holes at the time when the universe was less than 1 billion years old is like finding some mammal bones among the dinosaur bones in a Jurassic sedimentary rock." ...

And the supermassive black hole at its center is shooting an outstretched beam of energy into space. The Hubble Space ...

Star explosions called novas are happening twice as often near a gargantuan black hole jet as they are in the rest of the ...

M87 is one of the larger galaxies in our local patch of the Universe, and its central black hole has active jets. During an earlier period of regular observations, the Hubble Space Telescope had found ...

Three active galactic nuclei from the early universe were found in just a small patch of sky. How many more could there have ...

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In a fascinating new study, physicists from MIT propose that a small wobble in Mars’ orbit might help solve one of the ...

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"If there are lots of black holes out there, some of them must surely pass through our backyard every now and then." ...

A bold new study in Physical Review suggests that a wobble detected in Mars' orbit could be the result of dark matter made up ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...