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

"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...

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

Recent astronomical observations have unveiled unexpected patterns in the spins of galaxies throughout the universe, leaving ...

In an inversion of the well known scenario of a black hole devouring a star, the researchers propose that a star actually ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a ...

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

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 ...

Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made ...

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

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 ...