DESI, which will be scanning the sky for five more years, is expected to observe around 40 million galaxies and quasars ...

Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could make sense of that. Ultra-self-interacting dark matter clumped into ...

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

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know they exist not because they can see an actual hole, b ...

A high-energy neutrino detected by an underwater observatory in February 2025 may provide the first real evidence supporting ...

Rotating black holes are the most powerful phenomenon in the known universe. Their powerful gravity radically alters the ...

identified a staggering 2,500 candidate dwarf galaxies with feeding black holes at their centers and a further 300 intermediate-mass "missing link" black hole candidates — making it the largest haul ...

Astronomers have uncovered a baffling cosmic anomaly — a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 5084 that appears to be ...

It is a terrifying scenario straight out of science fiction. So, what would happen if you were struck by a primordial black hole? We already know that coming into contact with a stellar-mass ...

In the most detailed look at that black hole ever undertaken ... paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, these types of flares usually burst out of accretion disks, or swirling ...

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