Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole in its core. Whether the black hole forms first and then the galaxy around ...

Over 20 years ago, Khleo Thomas joined a cast of fellow teens in the deserts of California to film the 2003 hit Holes. Now, ...

The system is known as J1218/1219+1035, and is located 1.2 billion light-years from us. The three nuclei of the three ...

In a patch of sky about 1. 2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three galaxies caught in ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever ...

Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a ...

You might think that the human body has many holes, but that number shrinks when you stop to consider what counts as a hole.

Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...

Black holes are, of course, awesome. But, for scientists, they are more awesome. If a rainbow is marvellous, then understanding how all the colors of the rainbow are present, unified, in ordinary ...

Primordial black holes created in the first instants after the Big Bang — tiny ones smaller than the head of a pin and supermassive ones covering billions of miles — may account for all of the dark ...

Matthew Mason receives funding from Australian Research Council and the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre. Jonathan Roberts is an Associate Investigator with the Australian ...

Sacramento County, California, vote-by-mail envelopes were designed with holes punched into either side of the envelopes’ signature section. The holes’ purpose is to indicate to low-vision voters ...