"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

The James Webb telescope may have detected the universe's earliest and most distant known black hole at the heart of galaxy ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...

A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may account for the small red dots seen in ...

The universe, just 350 million years after the Big Bang, may have already hosted a supermassive black hole, an observation that pushes the limits of current astrophysical theory. Data from the James ...

New observations made with the ERIS instrument at the Very Large Telescope facility disprove the assumption that the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way devours nearby dust objects ...

Scientists have discovered that the redshift galaxy CANUCS-LRD-z8.6 has an unusually large accretion black hole for its ...

A supermassive black hole, named TXS 2013+370 and weighing 400 million times more than the Sun, has been observed firing deadly gamma-ray flares towards Earth.

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may ...