The sounds aren't just a scientific curiosity, though. The tenuous gas and plasma that drifts between the galaxies in galaxy ...

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

For the first time, astronomers have detected intense, fast-changing radio signals from a tidal disruption event, dubbed ...

It is no secret that at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, lies a supermassive black hole better known as Sagittarius A ...

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 ...

Event Horizon Telescope data reveal the magnetic field around M87* shifted, weakened and then flipped, defying theoretical expectations.

Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black holes—could harbor two black holes rather than one. That theory, long ...

It’s possible that these objects might be the primordial beginnings of the supermassive black holes found in the centers of ...

Indian astronomers have discovered how supermassive black holes and their powerful jets regulate galaxy growth by halting ...

For the first time, scientists observed a black hole tearing apart a star far from its galaxy’s center, producing the fastest ...

Astronomers have recently made a breakthrough studying the supermassive black hole M87*, a behemoth six and a half billion times the mass of the Sun, and have uncovered a new way these ...

Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes reside in the centers of most galaxies. But there's an open question in ...