Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole in its core. Whether the black hole forms first and then the galaxy around ...

Astronomers have obtained the sharpest-ever X-ray spectrum of an iconic active galaxy, providing the most accurate, precise ...

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 ...

A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas that’s spawning newborn stars in its wake. Astronomers have long theorized about ...

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

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

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 ...

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever before. By combining Einstein’s gravity with realistic behavior of light and ...

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