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 ...

Supermassive black holes stand out for their fundamental role in the evolution of galaxies and the history of the universe.

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 ...

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

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

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

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.