"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

A controversial theory suggests the observable universe is the result of matter rebounding after the collapse of a black hole ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead formed inside a colossal black hole.

His research will investigate how supermassive black holes, or SMBHs, were "seeded" in the early universe. Seeding refers to the formation of an initial small black hole that grows—either by accreting ...

Astronomers confirm ‘lite intermediate’ black holes, too large for ordinary stars, revealing clues about early stellar ...