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

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

NGC 6278 and PGC 039620 are two galaxies from a sample of 1,600 that were searched for the presence of supermassive black ...

Most smaller galaxies may not have supermassive black holes in their centers, according to a recent study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This contrasts with the common idea that nearly every ...

The two galaxies shown here, NGC 6278 and PGC 039620, are representative of the more than 1,600 galaxies analyzed in a new study. Both galaxies are ...

The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...

For instance, the Keck Observatory, co-owned by UC and CalTech, is among the most powerful astronomical instruments in the world. Nobel laureate Andrea Ghez utilized these telescopes to provide ...

Learn more about the supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 and how its powerful blast is similar to our sun’s coronal ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

Space is inaccessible to the vast majority of us, but it’s not as far away as you might think. The von Kármán Line, which is ...

The record-setting cosmic outburst was actually a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful class of cosmic explosions.

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBH), if they exist, have between about 100 and 1,000 solar masses, placing them in between ...