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

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

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

A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas ...

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

A new image of M87 shows and confirms for the first time the feeding ring and jet of its supermassive black hole.

In any other year, the supermassive black hole mentioned above would probably scoop the award for most striking outburst, but not in 2025. This year, that accolade goes to a flare designated ...

Astronomers have found three supermassive black holes on a collision course in a rare cosmic event, situated nearly 1.2 ...

New research explores how gravitational waves from black hole systems could help scientists study dark matter, using improved models and future detectors like LISA ...

Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a ...

Astronomers have confirmed the first known triple system in which all three galaxies host actively feeding, radio-bright ...