Peculiar James Webb Space Telescope observations seem to show gargantuan black holes in the earliest moments of the universe. New research may explain how they formed, thanks to primordial "seeds".
For decades, astronomers have puzzled over how the supermassive black holes residing in the center of galaxies form. Now, ...
Using the Japanese-led X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), astronomers have taken a deep look into a fascinating ...
Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly early times in the universe's evolution. It's difficult to understand ...
A black hole analog could tell us a thing or two about an elusive radiation theoretically emitted by the real thing. Using a ...
The white part of the egg is like the galaxy disc, where the stars are spread out (see graphic ... core of our galaxy – a supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A*).