Astronomers at the University of Warwick have discovered that black holes don't just consume matter—they manage it, choosing ...

QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.

A supermassive black hole in a distant disk galaxy is behaving badly, and the fallout is rewriting what I thought I knew ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

Black holes are not cosmic vacuum cleaners. They are among the universe’s most extreme objects - and come in different sizes.

A comprehensive set of simulations by Flatiron Institute astrophysicists and their colleagues revealed that magnetic fields are responsible for creating black holes with masses in a range previously ...

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of thermodynamics, which states that entropy remains positive and vanishes at ...

New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful magnetic forces act on a collapsing, spinning star, they eject vast amounts of ...

Astronomers have just watched a supermassive black hole tear apart a gigantic star, releasing a burst of light so intense it ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a singularity. To explore these ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered an extreme version of "little red dots" dubbed "The Cliff." Its light suggests that it could be a never-before-seen class of objects called ...