Priyamvada Natarajan

NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks with astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan about the James Webb Space Telescope's recent discovery of two distant black holes colliding.

'This quasar is the most violent place that we know in the universe,' says lead scientist

Astronomers have reportedly discovered the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a rapidly-growing black hole that swallows the equivalent of Earth's Sun per day.

NASA imaged the oldest and most distant black hole ever seen. The void's huge mass and age may provide researchers with more insights into how black holes are formed.

Using not one, but two powerful NASA space telescopes, astronomers have discovered a black hole so distant it could reveal how some of the first supermassive black holes formed.

Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet, a cosmic beast formed a mere 470 million years after the Big Bang. The findings, published Monday...

Black holes may contain the masses of more than a billion suns, but they also hold a few lessons that we humans can apply to everyday life.

A Bizarre 200,000-Light-Year-Long Bridge Links a Galaxy to Its Escaping Black Hole The universe is so capricious that even the slightest things that might go unnoticed could have profound implications. That's what happened to Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum when he was looking through Hubble Spac

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope will hunt for the universe's first stars — or rather, what's left of them after they've been ripped apart by black holes.

NASA's recent budget request doesn't offer hope for a leading X-ray astronomy spacecraft. Scientists are pretty worried.

Sabine Hossenfelder, Erik Verlinde and Priyamvada Natarajan discuss inconsistencies in our current theory of gravity. Is the fault with Einstein's theory of ...

The most distant supermassive black hole confirmed is more than 31 billion light years away, and it could be the key to figuring out how these behemoths grew so big so fast

Two NASA telescopes discovered the oldest known black hole, which formed just 470 million years after the big bang created the universe.

So far, gravitational waves have been only detected by astrophysicists from binary systems - the fusion of either two black holes, two neutron stars, or one of each. In theory, it should be possible to detect gravitational waves emanating from a solitary, non-binary source, but such elusive signals

Scientists studying the earliest black holes may have found an answer to dark matter, putting Stephen Hawking's theory on the subject back into the spotlight...

What is the universe made out of? How should we define death? Where did dogs come from? And more!

This is a former president of the United States saying it's fine for presidents to act like dictators.

Black holes were thought to arise from the collapse of dead stars. But a Webb telescope image showing the early universe hints at an alternative pathway.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Regina Barber and Aaron Scott of Short Wave about a black hole nearly as old as the universe, how pollution plagues sea turtles, and a simple fix to cut blood pressure.

How did supermassive black holes form? JWST and Chandra may have found the answer.