Near the middle of the Milky Way, there lives a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A) that any day now might eat a gas cloud (called G2) that’s floating towards it at 5 million miles ...

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Some of the mysterious pinpricks of light at the dawn of the Universe could be a type of object we've never seen before. According to a new analysis of a "little red dot" (LRD) nicknamed The Cliff, ...

New fear unlocked: spontaneous black hole implosion. Fresh research predicts that planets may be able to accumulate enough dark matter to suddenly form a black hole at their core. As the intruder ...

Astronomers spotted the ultramassive black hole inside the Cosmic Horseshoe, an equally gargantuan galaxy so powerful that it bends light from distant galaxies. Reading time 3 minutes The largest ...

Cosmologists have long treated black holes and the Big Bang as separate extremes of physics, one swallowing light, the other birthing space and time. A provocative line of research now suggests those ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

A radical new theory suggests our universe didn’t begin with the Big Bang. It bounced out of a black hole inside a much older cosmos. A group of physicists just put forward a theory that could shake ...

A black hole inside a distant spiral galaxy is devouring material from the universe around it and creating winds at speeds never before seen by astronomers. The European Space Agency said that the ...

Inside Silke Weinfurtner’s laboratory at the University of Nottingham in the UK, a giant water tank is helping her team better understand the complexity of the universe by standing in as an analogue ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. But what if their rapacious appetites had an unexpected side effect? A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black holes ...

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