In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again by 2020 -- only to dramatically increase its output again in 2023. At that ...

Unveiling the real science of black holes, exploring their mysteries, extreme physics, and groundbreaking discoveries shaping our understanding of the universe.

Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...

Black hole quantum effects are usually thought to be too small to have any observable signatures. This is indeed the case for ...

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Astronomers have captured a groundbreaking phenomenon at the brink of a supermassive black hole located at the heart of ...

which caused the black hole to tip over. Pamela Marcum, an astrophysicist at the NASA’s Ames Research Center and study co-author, admits that this galactic arrangement is both a real head ...

By studying black holes, says Marika Taylor ... But as for alternate theories of quantum gravity, there's no real competitor. Editor's note: This interview has been edited and condensed for ...

The only time the Century tends to be connected to a person’s name in print is in their obituary. Jong-Fast apologized ...