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 ...

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

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

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

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

Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...

Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a ...

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched ...

New paper led by UC Santa Cruz undergraduate suggests that long-dormant galaxies deemed to be dead may actually be stunted by ...

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

The system is known as J1218/1219+1035, and is located 1.2 billion light-years from us. The three nuclei of the three ...