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The polarity of a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of M87, a galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, unexpectedly flipped.

Astronomers Spot Something “Totally Unexpected” at Event Horizon of Supermassive Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Astrophysicists have measured the recoil resulting from the birth of a new black hole that formed from the merger of two preexisting ones.

Gravitational Waves

Scientists Detect Strange Signal in Gravitational Waves

By Victor Tangermann

The signal, a gamma ray burst, kept repeating — which has never been seen before, and, according to astronomers, should be impossible.

Scientists Say They Can’t Explain the Signal They Just Detected From Beyond Our Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers say they've found evidence of an ancient and never directly observed class of object known as a primordial black hole.

Scientists Discover Black Hole Created Less Than One Second After the Big Bang

By Frank Landymore

New research suggests that large planets can accumulate enough black matter in their cores to spawn a destructive black hole.

Scientists Say Black Holes Could Form Inside Planets, Leading to Absolute Catastrophe

By Frank Landymore

Thought to be some kind of galaxy, the Little Red Dots were spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope and have stumped astronomers for years.

Astronomers Say They’ve Finally Solved the “Little Red Dots” Mystery

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have unraveled the mystery of a bright celestial object that looks like the Eye of Sauron from Middle Earth.

Astronomers in Awe of Terrifying “Eye of Sauron” That’s Pointed Straight at Earth

By Sharon Adarlo

The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.

Scientists Discover What Appears to Be the Largest Black Hole in the Universe, So Heavy That It Completely Bends the Light Around It Into a Giant Ring

By Frank Landymore

An incredible object form by two colliding galaxies may be the site of a recently formed supermassive black hole.

Bizarre “Infinity Galaxy” Could Hold the Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have witnessed evidence of a collision between black holes so huge that it defies their understanding of physics.

Scientists Detect Sign of Something Impossible Out in Deep Space

By Frank Landymore

Astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Reinhard Genzel is slightly skeptical about a new study that used AI to tease out a black hole's secrets.

Nobel Prize Winner Warns About Astronomers Using AI to Make Discoveries

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers Astonished by Largest Explosion Since the Big Bang

Astronomers Astonished by Largest Explosion Since the Big Bang

By Frank Landymore

If the Big Bang actually happened inside a black hole, it could neatly explain some of the universe's biggest mysteries.

Scientists Calculate That the Entire Big Bang Must Have Taken Place Inside a Black Hole

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have observed a quasar-powered galaxy lasering its opponent with a crippling beam of radiation.

Astronomers Intrigued by Galaxy Blasting Its Neighbor With Giant Energy Beam

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have found that the universe around us is decaying far more quickly than we thought, thanks to Hawking radiation.

Scientists Just Moved Up the Death Date of the Universe

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists say they've built the first-ever "black hole bomb" — an ominous-sounding concept that dates back to the late 1960s.

Scientists Say They’ve Built a “Black Hole Bomb”

By Victor Tangermann