New research investigates how Hawking radiation from primordial black holes may have influenced cosmic formation.

"Many supermassive black holes may lie concealed within dusty regions of the early universe, undetected," said astronomer Takafumi Tsukui.

Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

First Data from XRISM Space Mission Provides New Perspective on Supermassive Black Holes Sep. 30, 2024 — Data from an international space mission is confirming decades worth of speculation about ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Astrophysicist and artist Ed Belbruno explains how art helps scientists communicate their work to the public and even ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago ...

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

Primordial black holes are the earliest black holes thought to exist, and they vanished almost as fast as they came into ...

Christopher Nolan's 2014 sci-fi movie gets analyzed by a real astrophysicist, who sings the movie's praises despite ...

A new recipe for black holes could do away with central singularities, saving the laws of physics from troubling infinities.

When a massive star ends its life, it leaves behind more than just memories of its luminous existence in the cosmos. These ...