An ultramassive black hole so huge it could swallow 30 billion suns has emerged from the cosmic background, revealed not by ...

A merger of galaxies and their supermassive black holes in the ZS7 system was spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope. The ...

Euclid telescope data shows merging galaxies are 2–6 times more likely to host active supermassive black holes, revealing how ...

Astronomers are learning more about the origins of supermassive black holes after new data is revealed from a 20-year-long ...

NASA’s Chandra telescope uses a new X-arithmetic method to compare X-ray energies and show how supermassive black holes shape galaxy clusters and galaxy groups, revealing differences in gas movement a ...

The X‑arithmetic technique offers a powerful new way to map the physics of other galactic structures across the universe and ...

JWST uncovers evidence of ancient “monster stars” whose extreme chemistry may explain the origins of early supermassive black ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory uncovers a surprising trend: smaller galaxies may not always harbor supermassive black holes ...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope spotted huge stars leaking nitrogen in an early galaxy, hinting that such ...

Compelling evidence that the structure of matter surrounding supermassive black holes has changed over cosmic time has been ...

Astronomers observed the supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 ejecting ultra-fast winds after a powerful X-ray flare.

An artist's impression depicts the accretion disc surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the disc wobbles. In ...