The earliest black holes in the universe may not have disappeared from Hawking radiation after all, new research hints.

In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.

New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

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Supermassive black hole binaries form naturally when galaxies merge, but scientists have only confidently observed a very few of these systems that are widely separated. Black hole binaries that ...

Astronomers tracked a star in Andromeda as it dimmed and vanished without the usual fiery explosion, offering rare clues to ...

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What would happen if you put a couple of physicists in a room with a rope, a box and a black hole? They might come up with a ...

A faint flash of infrared light in the Andromeda galaxy was emitted at the birth of a stellar-mass black hole – according to a team of astronomers in the US. Kishalay De at Columbia University and the ...

A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on ...

NASA’s NEOWISE archival data tracks a massive star in Andromeda fading quietly into a black hole, providing detailed observations of stellar collapse and gas expulsion from 2005 to 2023.

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s that theorized that when a star underwent direct collapse, it would leave ...