Some of the mysterious pinpricks of light at the dawn of the Universe could be a type of object we've never seen before. According to a new analysis of a "little red dot" (LRD) nicknamed The Cliff, ...

Scientists have simulated how M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, powers its immense particle jet. The Frankfurt team’s FPIC code shows that magnetic reconnection, where ...

It’s possible that these objects might be the primordial beginnings of the supermassive black holes found in the centers of ...

A provocative new theory suggests that the Universe may not have begun with a traditional Big Bang, but rather as a “Big Bounce” — the explosive rebound of matter collapsing into a black hole. Led by ...

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 ...