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

By zeroing in on the infrared scale, researchers offer details of the black hole jet stream in faraway galaxy M87.

Long before researchers knew about quasars or black holes, astronomers were photographing what is now known as Quasar OJ287.

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...

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

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

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

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, which swirls inward until it eventually vanishes into a gravitational ...

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 ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...

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

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...