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An unusually massive black hole in the very early universe may be a kind of exotic, star-less black hole first theorised by Stephen Hawking. In August, Boyuan Liu at the University of Cambridge and ...

To study the origins of our universe is to struggle with profound chicken-or-egg questions. We know the Big Bang happened. Cosmologists can see its afterglow in the sky. But no one knows whether the ...

A black hole unlike any seen before has been spotted in the early universe. It’s huge and appears to be essentially on its own, with few stars circling it. The object, which may represent a whole new ...

They’re the boogeymen of science fiction, a paradox of science and quite possibly a key to understanding the universe. Scientists have been scrambling to understand the mysterious forces of black ...

2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...