Latest about black holes
The Milky Way's supermassive black hole is spinning incredibly fast and at the wrong angle. Scientists may finally know why.
Observations from the Event Horizon Telescope may reveal a secret merger in our supermassive black hole's past, potentially explaining the cosmic monster's unusual spin.
The James Webb telescope found hundreds of 'little red dots' in the ancient universe. We still don't know what they are.
These small galaxies are either crammed with stars or they host gigantic black holes. The data astronomers have collected continues to puzzle them.
Scientists make lab-grown black hole jets
By using protons to probe how a magnetic field responds to an expanding plasma, experimenters have replicated the particle jets spewed out by active black holes.
Early galaxies weren't mystifyingly massive after all, James Webb Space Telescope finds
'The bottom line is, there is no crisis in terms of the standard model of cosmology.
The universe had a secret life before the Big Bang, new study hints
The secrets of black holes and dark matter could lie before the Big Bang, a new study of "bouncing" cosmology hints.
Some black holes have a 'heartbeat' — and astronomers may finally know why
A tiny fraction of known black holes emit X-ray signals that resemble a human "heartbeat." Now, new research may finally explain the strange phenomenon.
Watch a star get destroyed by a supermassive black hole in the 1st simulation of its kind
Stars that wander too close to supermassive black holes may be violently undone in a process called "spaghettification." New simulations provide the most detailed look ever at the gory interaction.
'Final parsec problem' that makes supermassive black holes impossible to explain could finally have a solution
A new study helps solve the "final parsec problem" that has made supermassive black hole formation impossible to explain, pointing to a strange form of dark matter as the key.
The Higgs particle could break physics throughout the universe. Here's why it hasn't.
The elusive Higgs particle has the power to undo physics as we know it. The fact that it hasn't could have big implications about the nature of the universe.
James Webb telescope confirms the earliest galaxy in the universe is bursting with way more stars than we thought possible
The light from the most distant galaxy in the known universe suggests that there's something off about our current cosmological models, a new James Webb Space Telescope study finds. The explanations remain elusive.
