Science Supermassive black holes intrigue astronomers with their ability to grow rapidly. A recent discovery reveals an ...

When astronomers first unveiled the image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, it ...

But the Webb may have just identified a solution to the dilemma as well. It has spotted a black hole that appears to have ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

Black holes are the universe’s shadowy figures, with many millions of them roaming unseen in our galaxy alone. These cosmic ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

Back in 2009 astronomers spotted the same trend in jet knots blasted by a monster black hole in the center of M87 galaxy, ...

The black hole’s mass is over half that of all the stars in the surrounding galaxy, a record for any galaxy hosting a quasar.

It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, appearing to guzzle ...

New research from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory uncovers fast-moving knots in black hole jets, highlighting differences in ...