An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: ESO/C. Marconcini et al. A distant galaxy is home to a ravenous supermassive black hole ...

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...

For the first time, astronomers have gotten a detailed look at how a supermassive black hole (SMBH) eats, discovering two ...

A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic Cloud dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way on an ever-closing loop, signs of ...

A black hole far from its galactic center has unleashed the fastest, brightest radio flares ever seen from a star’s destruction. For the first time, astronomers have detected a tidal disruption event ...

Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than theoretical predictions. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes All galaxies have a ...