An international research team, including Newcastle University’s Dr Adam Ingram, has detected rapidly fluctuating X-rays ...

NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...

Black holes and neutron stars are among the most fascinating and mysterious objects in the universe. These cosmic phenomena ...

Scientists think supermassive black holes grow to monstrous sizes ... When Einstein's theory of gravity, general relativity, was used to describe the universe, it produced a cosmos that wouldn ...

Black hole quantum effects are usually thought to be too small to have any observable signatures. This is indeed the case for ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Are there particles that can move faster than light? Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb explores this question and the mysterious ...

2024 — Researchers conducted innovative simulations of spinning black holes grounded in general relativity, which clarified that the ultraluminous accretion disk (i.e., gaseous spiral ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some ...

Astronomers have detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery is the most distant ...