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

For the past few years, astronomers have grappled with a cosmic enigma first revealed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ...

Puzzling red spots in photos from the James Webb Space Telescope are probably young supermassive black holes obscured by ...

Instead of just pointing in one direction, like most black hole jets, this one is sweeping in a curvy S-shaped pathway.

They’re the boogeymen of science fiction, a paradox of science and quite possibly a key to understanding the universe. Scientists have been scrambling to understand the mysterious forces of black ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration created a ...

Astronomers have detected a collision between two black holes in unprecedented detail, offering the clearest view yet into the nature of these cosmic oddities and confirming long-held predictions made ...

Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes reside in the centers of most galaxies. But there's an open question in ...