Black holes, regions of spacetime in which gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, are intriguing and extensively ...

New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful ...

"Once you consider magnetic fields, you can actually explain the origins of this unique event." Scientists have gotten to the ...

In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion ...

Monster black holes entered the cosmic scene soon after the Universe’s birth and grew rapidly, reaching millions or even ...

A new study suggests that during a potential phase of primordial matter domination, particle interactions may have led to the formation of the universe’s first compact cosmic objects. Less than a ...

Physicists agree that an awful lot went on in the first few seconds after the Big Bang, a lot of it in incomprehensibly tiny ...

Might the universe’s most extreme black holes owe their existence to magnetism? In 2023, gravitational wave detectors LIGO, ...

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, thesehalos may then have collapsed, creating the first black holes, boson ...

Mumbai researchers unveil twin rings around a galaxy, enhancing our understanding of mysterious cosmic phenomena through ...

Astronomers from the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) and colleagues have determined how ...