In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes (about five to 50 times the ...

A black hole is more than just a region of space where nothing escapes. It can also become a powerful cosmic engine.

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a hidden population of supermassive black holes in the early Universe. These ...

In the heart of distant galaxies, astronomers have witnessed the most violent stellar death throes ever recorded.

One of the ENTs studied in this work, named Gaia18cdj, released 25 times more energy than the most powerful supernova on ...

The findings suggest black holes could provide a cheaper, natural alternative to billion-dollar particle colliders, if we can ...

Scientists have identified a new class of cosmic explosions, dubbed 'extreme nuclear transients' (ENTs), that represent the ...

New research offers compelling evidence for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), the "missing links" in black hole ...

Learn more about how astronomers have observed an unprecedented cosmic explosion that has the potential to transform the ...

New particle accelerators are to be built to detect dark matter. There are much larger ones in space that could be used, say ...

Astronomers have unearthed fresh evidence supporting the existence of intermediate-mass black holes, a category between ...

New studies reveal clues about elusive intermediate-mass black holes, bridging the gap between stellar and supermassive types ...