A high school student in New York has stumbled onto a massive discovery — a cosmic light echo possibly spanning twice the width of the Milky Way. While scanning space for signs of dying stars, 17-year ...

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...

While sifting out signatures of supernova remnants, a high-schooler stumbled upon the afterglow of a dormant black hole. It ...

One researcher’s analysis of Webb Space Telescope images could indicate that we’re all stuck in a black hole, according to ...

Sometimes a galaxy’s supermassive black hole “wakes up” due to a sudden influx of gas ... of millions of years – a process impossible to track directly in the real universe. These sophisticated ...

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three ...

In another galaxy, called M33 ... you'd have to shrink it to less than an inch across. But real black holes are much larger than that and pack way more mass than Earth. Here's just how big ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

New research challenges our understanding of black holes, proposing they may not be cosmic dead ends after all.

GS-z13-1, using the James Webb Space Telescope. This galaxy provides evidence that the universe's transition from its 'dark ...

On the one hand, scientists have seen real black holes in action ... the best place to test this is at the supermassive black hole in the center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, which is ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...