A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...

Astronomers capture a massive black hole waking up like a 'cosmic volcano' after lying dormant for 100 million years.

Deep in the cosmos, about a billion light-years away, a monster with a gargantuan appetite has woken up. For roughly 100 ...

One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) earliest mysteries was that of the little red dots, which researchers have ...

A nearby galaxy is launching an enormous stream of super-heated gas, driven by a precessing jet from its central black hole., ...

Astronomers have captured the moment a 'reborn' supermassive black hole awakened after 100 million years of silence.

For years, strange red dots in James Webb images left scientists puzzled. New research shows they are young black holes ...

A supermassive black hole is reawakening inside a distant galaxy cluster—and after almost 100 million years of slumber, ...

For decades, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way was an invisible monster, betrayed only by the way ...

Since the James Webb Space Telescope went into operation, red dots in its images have puzzled researchers around the world.

Instead, this new research suggests that black holes actually act like "cosmic seesaws," switching between these two distinct ...