Learn how a supermassive black hole has prevented a dead galaxy that was born soon after the Big Bang from making new stars.

Astronomers have long puzzled over how some massive galaxies stop forming stars and remain dormant for billions of years—even ...

Astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea discovered clear evidence that a supermassive black hole can reshape a ...

Instead, this new research suggests that black holes actually act like "cosmic seesaws," switching between these two distinct ...

Ancient galaxies colloquially known as "little red dots" have proven a mystery ever since astronomers discovered them three ...

Micro black holes behave very differently from the cosmic giants we usually imagine. This video explains how tiny black holes ...

"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

Astronomers at the University of Warwick have discovered that black holes don't just consume matter—they manage it, choosing ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

What do we really know about black holes? We've only recently even gotten a visual of an actual black hole, so not a lot. But although we can now see a black hole, can we see through a black hole? And ...

Black holes don’t just bend space and time; they expose where our understanding of reality starts to break.  In this video, ...

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new ...