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

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

Some discoveries emerge softly, with no explosions or satisfying conclusions. Astronomers were watching a distant flare from ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Instead of just pointing in one direction, like most black hole jets, this one is sweeping in a curvy S-shaped pathway.

The black hole is located in galaxy QSO1, seemingly without any stars around it, which defies the long-held idea that black ...

The black hole appears far too massive for its host galaxy, placing it in a rare category of “overmassive” black holes.

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

The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about ...