The black hole is located in galaxy QSO1, seemingly without any stars around it, which defies the long-held idea that black ...

Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole in its core. Whether the black hole forms first and then the galaxy around ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.

Astronomers analyzing data from an array of telescopes — including the W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island — determined that luminous fast blue optical transients are powered by an ...

Cutting-edge supercomputer simulations reveal intricate processes around black holes, improving our understanding of accretion disks and jets, and bringing us closer to solving cosmic mysteries.

Freezing rain may have stopped falling in Massachusetts, but black ice remains a threat on Thursday morning. The National Weather Service issued a Special Weather Statement for the entire state, ...

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.