DESI, which will be scanning the sky for five more years, is expected to observe around 40 million galaxies and quasars ...

Scientists are working to identify an oddly pulsating, supermassive black hole ( SMBH) that pulled a really weird stunt. More ...

Astronomers have discovered an ultramassive black hole 36 billion times heavier than the Sun in the galaxy LRG 3-757. This ...

Astrophysicists at UCLA suggest decaying dark matter may drive processes leading to the formation supermassive black holes.

Black holes may leak more energy to their surroundings than previously suspected — and the faster these voids spin, the more ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the ...

Centaurus A: The image presents an elliptical galaxy encircled by a dark dust lane, observed through a ground-based telescope ...

Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants’ passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services ...

Create a Physics World account to get access to all available digital issues of the monthly magazine. Your Physics World account is separate to any IOP acco ...

"We would like to understand the difference between these systems, which holds the clue to understand just how many cosmic ...

In 2020, astronomers identified a nearby star system that appeared to contain something phenomenal: the closest black hole to ...

Sagittarius A*, our galaxy's supermassive black hole, is constantly producing strange eruptions. Astronomers are using the ...