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

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

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

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 pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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