Combining observations from several powerful telescopes, astronomers have detected a gargantuan, 'wobbling' black hole ...

Astronomers in Japan have discovered a supermassive black hole growing at impossible speed, breaking the cosmic Eddington ...

"It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most ...

An international research team led by scientists at Waseda University and Tohoku University has discovered an extraordinary ...

It's one of astronomy's great mysteries: how did black holes get so big, so massive, so quickly. An answer to this cosmic ...

Muntjac deer use large preorbital eye glands to release scent chemicals that communicate identity, territory, and reproductive status. These glands allow muntjacs to mark territory and assess rivals ...

An unusually massive black hole in the very early universe may be a kind of exotic, star-less black hole first theorised by Stephen Hawking. In August, Boyuan Liu at the University of Cambridge and ...

In a patch of sky about 1.2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three galaxies caught in a merger, and all three of their central supermassive black holes are ...

Some 1.2 billion light-years from Earth, a massive event is unfolding on cosmic scales. There, not two, but three galaxies are gradually coming together in a giant, triple collision named ...

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Astronomers using AI have captured a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event: a massive star’s violent death triggered by its black hole companion. The explosion, known as SN 2023zkd, not only produced a ...

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