For several years, astronomers have observed small dense gas clouds falling toward the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* ...

The latest from the James Webb Space Telescope could completely change what we know about the formation of these astronomical ...

Astrophysicists think that black hole masses are hierarchical. The largest are supermassive black holes (SMBH) like the one ...

A teams of researchers looking at data from the James Webb telescope found evidence that early black holes formed before ...

There were lots of ideas about what we might see, but the Universe is full of surprises. One of the first surprises was the ...

There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There’s ...

For the first time, mass of a supermassive black hole in the early cosmos could be determined thanks to a fortunate coincidence. Consequences are far-reaching.

The thinking around exoplanet habitability is mostly concerned with a planet's distance from its star. Too close, and any ...

What are the little red dots discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope? These X-rays may offer a clue.

The active centres of galaxies might be regions of extraordinary planet formation, where millions of worlds are born. Most ...

"We have never observed such a high-energy neutrino before, and if it turns out to come from cosmic accelerators like blazars ...