JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered the largest and most extended stream of ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

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

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

Astronomers have captured the moment a supermassive black hole literally tore apart a super sun (one 30 times larger than our ...

A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas that’s spawning newborn stars in its wake. Astronomers have long theorized about ...

Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole in its core. Whether the black hole forms first and then the galaxy around ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

Black holes may appear to be shaped like a doughnut, but the truth is more complicated than that, explain our readers ...