Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

A supermassive black hole residing within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - a satellite galaxy - is on a collision course ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way apparently flared up dramatically relatively recently. An echo of ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

Galaxy mergers are not uncommon throughout the Universe; in fact, they're thought to be one of the major mechanisms whereby ...

Black holes are significant within the scientific exploration of space. They are places in space where gravity is incredibly strong, so much so that not even light can evade it.  The center of a black ...

Supermassive black holes have been found at the center of almost every galaxy, sucking up anything unlucky to fall into its maw — including light itself — through unfathomable gravitational forces.

In a fresh discovery that's leaving astronomers awestruck, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has confirmed the existence of a "runaway" supermassive black hole roughly 20 million times the mass of ...

U.S. astronomers have identified an extraordinarily rare cosmic system in which three merging galaxies each host an actively ...