Combining observations from several powerful telescopes, astronomers have detected a gargantuan, 'wobbling' black hole ...

For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...

It's 20 million times the mass of the Sun and it's moving at supersonic speeds. Find out how JWST finally proved this rogue ...

A supermassive black hole is reawakening inside a distant galaxy cluster—and after almost 100 million years of slumber, ...

In A Nutshell A black hole in the early universe is eating 13 times faster than a classic physics rule says is possible It’s breaking the “Eddington limit,” a rule of thumb for black hole growth, like ...

NASA and NOAA recently announced good news concerning the ozone hole. What are lessons about science, policy and skepticism for other challenges?

The James Webb Space Telescope captured infrared light from a black hole and gave scientists unprecedented insights into the ...

On Sept. 14, 2015, physicists attained the long-sought goal of detecting gravitational waves, the shockwaves spewed out by such cataclysmic events as the violent merger of two black holes. Now, in the ...

In the mid-1980s, scientists published a startling finding–a giant hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica. That’s the ...

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