A giant supermassive black hole (SMBH) that consumes the mass of the Sun a day has been found to be about one-fifteenth of ...

Using a chain of atoms in single file to simulate the event horizon of a black hole, a team of physicists in 2022 observed ...

The known universe is full of shockingly huge things. Here are the largest planets, stars, galaxies, and structures we've ...

Biggest vs smallest - how do we measure up in the grand scheme of the universe? Explore the fascinating scales of existence, ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early universe.

A growing list of dark star candidates could help explain why some early galaxies were so big, so early in the universe.

Some of the mysterious pinpricks of light at the dawn of the Universe could be a type of object we've never seen before.

(CNN) — Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current ...

“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images from the James ...

Astronomers at Penn State have nicknamed the objects “universe breakers,” which may be unusual black hole atmospheres and ...

This image provided by NSF's NOIRLab shows an artist's illustration of the largest radio jet ever found in the early Universe. (M. Garlick/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA via AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — ...