Nestled within a tiny red galaxy, it dates back 13 billion years -- just 500 million years before the Big Bang -- and shows ...

A merger of galaxies and their supermassive black holes in the ZS7 system was spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope. The ...

We call black holes in this gap lite intermediate mass black holes or lite IMBHs, because they are the least massive black ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an ...

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...

An astrophysicist argues that the interstellar mission would be extremely challenging but not completely unrealistic ...

A marathon runner himself, Cosimo Bambi likens the quest for interstellar travel to a long-distance race, saying his proposal ...

Very Large Telescope observations of the galaxy revealed that there was likely a “sudden awakening of the massive black hole ...

A team of astronomers says it has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed — a cosmic heavyweight that formed ...

The black hole, spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe, could be the most massive ever found.

For a spacecraft like that to reach a black hole in such a relatively short time, there would have to be a black hole 20-25 ...

The author, astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi of Fudan University, places the idea “somewhere between hard engineering and science ...