Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it ...

Dark matter is an enigmatic form of matter not expected to emit light, yet it is essential to understanding how the rich ...

A team of astronomers used an "Earth-sized super telescope" to detect an object that emits no light, via gravitational ...

The bright outflow jets of J0529 are being fed by a process called Super-Eddington Accretion, where an object exceeds its ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

About 620 light-years from Earth, a gigantic rogue proto-planet is currently devouring 6.6 billion tons of dust and gas per ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

Kinetic energy has to do with the motion of an object—the faster it’s moving, the more kinetic energy it has. If you take a ...

Astronomers detect a million-sun-mass dark object in deep space using gravitational lensing. This hidden mass may be dark matter or a dormant dwarf galaxy, supporting cold dark matter models and ...

Astronomers have discovered a significant “growth spurt” in a rogue planet outside of our solar system. The free-floating planet is currently consuming gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of ...

A giant supermassive black hole (SMBH) that consumes the mass of the Sun a day has been found to be about one-fifteenth of its initially estimated size, which makes its rate of feeding even more ...