When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.

Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...

In the summer of 1998, the late Professor Stephen Hawking found himself captivated by Greece's Samos: "Heaven on Earth." ...

A posthumous work by Stephen Hawking will be released on October 17, 2018. Called "Brief answers to the great questions of ...

Today in the history of astronomy, one of the brightest and most famous scientific minds of the modern era is born.

The black hole is located in galaxy QSO1, seemingly without any stars around it, which defies the long-held idea that black ...

Despite being “black” and a “hole”, a black hole is not a dark, empty space. In his theory of relativity, Einstein predicted how black holes are formed. When a massive star dies, it leaves a smaller, ...

Explore Stephen Hawking's concerns about AI and its potential to be humanity's biggest existential threat. Discover the ...

For roughly half a century, astrophysicists have treated the behavior of matter around supermassive black holes as a solved ...

Stephen Hawking has compared the Internet to a living brain that connects humanity. The quote has captured his belief that ...