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

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 ...

The concept of two black holes orbiting one another has been theorized for many years, but recent satellite photography may ...

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 ...

Astronomers used the ALMA radio array in Chile to show that two narrow spiral arms are funneling gas toward the central ...

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.

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

Event Horizon Telescope data reveal the magnetic field around M87* shifted, weakened and then flipped, defying theoretical expectations.

Astronomers have caught a runaway black hole in the act of tearing apart a star in a place it shouldn’t be: far from the bustling center of its host galaxy. The stellar catastrophe – known as a tidal ...

The team examined an ancient quasar which they described as “a galaxy with a black hole so old and bright it looks like a cosmic beacon from the dawn of time”. Their study showed that the quasar had a ...

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