Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, which swirls inward until it eventually vanishes into a gravitational ...

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 ...

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

When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they ...

A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...

A supermassive black hole in the far reaches of the Universe has been found guzzling down material at one of the fastest ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a ...

Astronomers using JWST have captured the sharpest infrared view yet of the supermassive black hole jet in M87, offering new insights into its structure and physics.

Scientists have simulated how M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, powers its immense particle ...

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

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

The team examined an ancient quasar which they described as “a galaxy with a black hole so old and bright it looks like a cosmic beacon from the dawn of time”. Their study showed that the quasar had a ...