Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to date, providing the clearest ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over how some massive galaxies stop forming stars and remain dormant for billions of years—even ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have ...

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

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.

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

Three merging galaxies host three active black holes, offering rare insight into galaxy and black hole growth.