In 2019, researchers detected gravitational waves that indicated that two black holes were merging. These were two fairly ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

Astronomers have successfully observed the previouslyinvisible corona of a supermassive black hole located in the distant ...

Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole within a galaxy just 570 million years after the Big Bang. Part of a class of ...

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

Since its discovery in 2022, the GHZ2 galaxy has garnered attention from astronomers due to its unique spectrum featuring ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing supermassive black hole in the infant universe. Existing just 570 million years after ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...

Building on decades of effort, Lizhong Zhang, Member (2023–24) in the School of Natural Sciences; James Stone, Professor in ...