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For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spotted the black hole as it appeared just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, and it was ...

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...

This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an observation designated GW190412. Credits: © N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A.

Einstein's theory of general relativity describes the inevitability of singularities, which are obscured by black holes ...

An illustration of two black holes about to merge into one. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) The finding about LID-568's feeding frenzy was far from the last word on early supermassive black hole ...

M87, a prominent galaxy in the Virgo cluster, gained fame after the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) revealed the first image of ...

Scientists have long observed black holes existing as part of binary systems, where a black hole pairs with a nearby object ...

Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is 'napping' after stuffing itself with too much food. Like a bear gorging itself on salmon before ...

Buried in archival data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, researchers discovered something else ...

Astronomers have identified a remarkable water reservoir in deep space, circling a huge quasar more than 12 billion ...