Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

A flash of extraordinary intensity suddenly illuminated the cosmos in 2018, capturing the attention of astronomers with its ...

"The sizes of these radio jets are not comparable to our solar system or even our galaxy." ...

With masses that dwarf anything in the stellar realm, supermassive black holes are central to galaxy evolution. This analysis compares them to other cosmic giants—like dark matter halos and galactic ...

Observations of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, collected by the James Webb Space ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have successfully discovered 53 new quasars powered by supermassive black holes ...

Astronomers have long debated the role of galaxy mergers in powering active supermassive black holes. Now an unprecedented dataset of a million galaxies from the Euclid telescope provides evidence ...

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

Building on decades of effort, a team of computational astrophysicists has achieved a major milestone: developing the most comprehensive model to date ...