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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. (Main) An illustration of a feeding supermassive black hole "burping" jets of high-speed matter. ...

The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one ...

These two small (ish) black holes were actually pulled together not by each other, but by a third supermassive black hole.

A monstrous black hole in a distant galaxy has earned itself a nickname worthy of a science-fiction horror movie for its gluttonous feasting on any stars that dare get near. Meet "Space Jaws." NASA ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists are observing the most energetic flare ever seen emanating from a supermassive black hole, ...

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