Supermassive black holes literally don’t add up. Astrophysicists know it takes more time than is mathematically possible for ...
Shock waves from tiny black holes in the early universe could explain how antimatter became so rare while matter is common.
An underwater observatory recently detected a startlingly energetic cosmic neutrino. One possible cause involves a phenomenon ...
Astronomers studied 1.3 million galaxies and 8,000 X-ray-spewing supermassive black holes to find out why these gravitational ...
The most massive black holes in the universe are no longer growing the way they once did. A large-scale study now points to a ...
Supermassive blackholes are at the centre of almost every large galaxy, although scientists are still not sure how they ...
A blazing supermassive black hole can influence far more than its own galaxy. Scientists found that quasars emit radiation strong enough to shut down star formation in nearby galaxies millions of ...
A bizarre, record-breaking neutrino detected in 2023 may have originated from an exploding primordial black hole—a relic from ...
An artistic impression of the black hole jets from Mrk 501. (Emma Kun/HUN-REN Konkoly Observatory/Made with the support of AI ...
Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...
An artist's concept of a tidal disruption event (TDE), which happens when a star passes close to a supermassive black hole. The gravity of the black hole pulls material from the star and launches a ...