An international research team led by scientists at Waseda University and Tohoku University has discovered an extraordinary ...

It's one of astronomy's great mysteries: how did black holes get so big, so massive, so quickly. An answer to this cosmic ...

"It's like watching a cosmic volcano erupt again after ages of calm — except this one is big enough to carve out structures ...

The gaseous cocoons surrounding "little red dots" hint at their true nature, a new James Webb telescope study hints.

An unusually massive black hole in the very early universe may be a kind of exotic, star-less black hole first theorised by Stephen Hawking. In August, Boyuan Liu at the University of Cambridge and ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope by NASA gives a glimpse into a black hole within the Circinus Galaxy, which ...

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In a patch of sky about 1.2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three galaxies caught in a merger, and all three of their central supermassive black holes are ...

Astronomers using AI have captured a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event: a massive star’s violent death triggered by its black hole companion. The explosion, known as SN 2023zkd, not only produced a ...

Editor’s note: This article was originally published Aug. 13, 2025, and has been updated to include new text and illustrations featured in the January 2026 issue of Astronomy. Using an artificial ...

The removal of two memorial displays at an American cemetery in the Netherlands honoring Black veterans who helped liberate Europe from Nazi rule has drawn the ire of many. Last spring, the American ...