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

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

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 rates ever seen.

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.

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...

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