Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

Ever since humans first gazed up at the night sky, the Universe has filled us with awe and wonder. Lately, however, it's also ...

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

Just 570 million years after the Big Bang, a young, compact galaxy named CANUCS-LRD-z8.6 appears to host a supermassive black ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2022, continues to reshape how we view the cosmos. Designed to look deeper into space and further back in time than any previous instrument, it has ...

Gazing up at the stars at night, it’s easy to imagine that space goes on forever. But cosmologists know that the universe actually has limits. First, their best models indicate that space and time had ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered the oldest known black hole in the universe. Nestled within a glowing red galaxy, it dates back 13 billion years and provides a ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...