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

The giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), in the constellation Virgo, possesses near its center a supermassive black hole ...

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 ...

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

"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...

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

Astronomers have discovered that a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Circinus galaxy is feeding through two ...

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...

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

Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...

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