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

Astronomers may have finally cracked one of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how black holes grew so enormous so fast after ...

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...

Recent James Webb Space Telescope data confirms a decade-old theory that the universe's earliest supermassive black holes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2019, LIGO and Virgo detected GW190521—a mysterious gravitational wave that could mark either the colossal merger of two black ...

But now a new study published in Nature suggests a solution to the Little Red Dots mystery. Scientists think young ...

New models explain how small black holes in the early universe beat the clock and grew into massive objects within millions ...

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Physicists may soon witness a cosmic fireworks show: the explosive death of a primordial black hole. Once thought to be unimaginably rare, new research suggests there’s up to a 90% chance of catching ...