"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...

At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

In truth, local officials are motivated more by desperation than greed. Across provinces, counties and cities, they are ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

The new president of Guernsey's Health and Social Care Committee (HSC) has conceded there was "no political oversight" of the ...

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2022, continues to reshape how we view the cosmos. Designed to look deeper into space and further back in time than any previous instrument, it has ...

Imagine if a species grew up on a planet that had a black hole moon the mass of the moon. They’d have tides, they’d have an unobstructed view of the night sky, and they’d have no clue about this ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...