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

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 ...

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

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

AGN are bright centres of galaxies powered by matter falling into supermassive black holes, which are millions of times more ...

The concept of two black holes orbiting one another has been theorized for many years, but recent satellite photography may ...

When galaxies collide, it's not a gentle affair, but it does take millions of years. Over this time, the two massive star ...

Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...

Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics have discovered that radiation and jets from supermassive black holes ...

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