Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive ...

Explore the futuristic beauty of Shenzhen at night in crystal-clear 4K HDR.

In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes (about five to 50 times the mass of the sun), supermassive black holes (millions to billions of ...

NASA finds supermassive black hole called ‘Space Jaws:’ Why it deserves sci-fi horror name A sneaky black hole was the source of a tidal disruption event that was so large and so bright that ...

Black Holes Can Exist Without Singularities, Two New Models Suggest Alternatives to standard black holes suggest that maybe there’s no need for a singularity.

A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating cylinder and magnetic coils. Studying the bomb could help us better ...

What Are Black Hole Supermazes? Supermazes come from M-theory, an umbrella idea that includes multiple versions of string theory, in which our universe contains 11 dimensions—not just the four ...

"Many supermassive black holes may lie concealed within dusty regions of the early universe, undetected," said astronomer Takafumi Tsukui.

300 new intermediate-mass black holes plus 2500 new active black holes in dwarf galaxies discovered Date: February 19, 2025 Source: Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA ...

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

In 1974, Stephen Hawking proposed that black holes could evaporate. But do we understand how this might happen?

Quickly moving primordial black holes might leave tiny holes in regular matter as they tunnel through, leaving traces we might find.