Astronomers have discovered two early-universe galaxies where the central black holes appear to have grown far faster than ...

In 2014, a NASA telescope observed as the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around three ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have detected what may be the most massive black ...

Galaxy of closest pair of black holes viewable in stunning 4K Posted: April 27, 2026 | Last updated: April 27, 2026 Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It ...

One of the universe’s earliest known black holes may have outgrown its galaxy for good. New observations of the quasar ULAS J1120+0641 reveal a system so deeply unbalanced that even future galaxy ...

New research by Professor Enrique Gaztañaga from the University of Portsmouth and the Institute of Space Sciences in Barcelona suggests some black holes formed before the Big Bang and survived a ...

The strong stellar wind from the supergiant star pushes the jets launched by the black hole away from the star. This causes the jet direction to vary as the black hole and the supergiant star move ...

A new study explains how dense pockets of matter could have survived over an age-old cycle of multiple ‘Big Bangs.’ Reading time 3 minutes What was going on before the Big Bang? (Anything interesting?

Black holes do not appear to develop measurable tidal distortions in response to outside influences carried by bosonic fields, so their tidal Love number is zero in those cases. A new study suggests ...

A model of the cyclic universe suggests that dark matter could be a population of black holes predating the Big Bang. There are different versions of the “multiverse.” The most popular model—that of ...

Scientists have quantified the energy produced by the first black hole ever discovered, revealing that it spews “dancing” jets that shine as bright as thousands of suns and travel 335 million mph — ...

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