Many of Shruthi Rao’s books make scientific themes more accessible to children. She says simplifying complicated topics for ...

Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope -- a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes -- have identified the likely starting point of a massive cosmic jet in the heart of ...

This puzzle is known as the problem of time, and it remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of ...

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...

Time is a straightforward concept - or is it? The passing of minutes and years isn't as easy to explain as many assume.

But now a new study published in Nature suggests a solution to the Little Red Dots mystery. Scientists think young ...

Some galaxies eject powerful streams of charged particles—jets—from their centers into space. The prominent jet of Messier 87 ...

"It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most massive black holes in the universe." ...

New models explain how small black holes in the early universe beat the clock and grew into massive objects within millions ...

The way time ticks forward in our universe has long stumped physicists. Now, a new set of tools from entangled atoms to black ...

Astronomers may have finally cracked one of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how black holes grew so enormous so fast after ...

The early universe has a lot more massive black holes than suspected.