Astrophysicists have observed an extraordinary event following the collision of two neutron stars—the explosive birth of a ...

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The DESI survey reveals that active black holes in small galaxies are common. The findings may help reveal how the two cosmic bodies evolve together.

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Astronomers have spotted a black hole that dates back to just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, which is gobbling up matter at an astonishing rate. According to their calculations, the black hole ...

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Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a feeding black hole in the early universe that seems to be eating 40 times faster than is theoretically possible.

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

Artist’s Impression of the fastest-feeding black hole in the early Universe. Photo Courtesy: NOIRLab LID-568 was discovered ...