A new theoretical study by University of Virginia astrophysicist Jonathan Tan, a research professor with the College and ...

The spacecraft, no heavier than a gram and propelled to a third of the speed of light by lasers on Earth, would gather ...

Astronomers using the James Webb telescope have zoomed in on a 'Little Red Dot' that existed just 500 million years after the ...

Astronomers using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Very Large Array (VLA) have caught a supermassive black hole in ...

Astronomers have uncovered what may be the most massive black hole ever found, 36 billion times the mass of our Sun, hidden ...

Sheffield Council is to freeze recruitment for six months as it grapples with a budget gap of more than £28m. The authority ...

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

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

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an ...

Astronomers spotted the ultramassive black hole inside the Cosmic Horseshoe, an equally gargantuan galaxy so powerful that it ...

Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that likely formed at the dawn of the ...

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