Eragon feels like a timeless classic, a YA reimagining of The Lord of The Rings. It’s the story a young man’s quest to defeat ...

"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

Compact ruddy galaxies seen by the James Webb telescope confound astronomers. Having very little spin at birth may explain the galaxies’ small sizes.

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead formed inside a colossal black hole.

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole that's shooting a giant energy beam directly at Earth. The cosmic ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are stellar-mass black holes, formed by collapsing stars, with masses between 5 ...

For decades, scientists have been trying to observe and characterize Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. In May 2022, they unveiled the first-ever image of this ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Supermassive black holes are some of the densest objects found within our universe.

Credit: Unsplash+. A supermassive black hole far out in space has revealed what happens when it “overeats”—by blasting out huge amounts of excess material at nearly a third the speed of light.

A few, however, carry extreme energy: more than a million times what particle accelerators on Earth can produce. A new study suggests that those monsters are born in the churning magnetic fields of ...