Astronomers overwhelmingly agree a supermassive black hole anchors the Milky Way. But a new theoretical analysis explores a far more speculative possibility: not a black hole, but a dense knot of dark ...

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There's no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new study asks whether a ...

We go in depth on black holes: the strangest objects in the universe! Black holes are not just the strangest objects in the universe, they're the sharpest test we have of how reality actually works.

The early universe has a lot more massive black holes than suspected.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to look back in time and study galaxies that existed shortly after the Big ...

Black holes are powerful space objects that can pull in nearby stars. But how does this really happen? In this kid-friendly science explainer, learn how black holes stretch, heat and slowly “eat” ...

The sharpest black hole collision ever detected just gave Einstein another win—and raised hopes that the next one might ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought was possible. Reading time 4 minutes When LIGO broke news of an ...

Trillions of neutrinos—nearly massless, neutrally charged particles—pass through us every second, but we only acknowledge ...

BEIJING -- China's Tianguan satellite -- also named the Einstein Probe -- has likely captured an intermediate-mass black hole tearing apart and devouring a white dwarf star, marking the first time ...