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Just when you think you understand black holes, the James Webb Space Telescope goes and discovers something that no one has ever seen before.

"I think that the simplest explanation of the rotating universe is the universe was born in a rotating black hole." Without a doubt, since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has ...

A supermassive black hole around a million times the mass of the Sun just gave away its position in spectacular fashion. When a passing star veered a little too close, it was torn apart in the black ...

The team revisited data from an object first spotted years ago, using updated observations to finally confirm its identity, as detailed in their paper published in The Astrophysical Journal. Several ...

Over the past decade, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network has detected hundreds of black hole mergers, but none quiet as large as GW231123. At 225 solar masses, the black hole resulting from the merger ...

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black holes crashed into each other billions of light-years away. The result is a ...

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an astonishing black hole. It was only just measured by scientists who managed ...