The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe.

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...

Collaboration has achieved the highest-resolution Earth-based observations to date, detecting light at 345 GHz from the ...

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

Black holes are as dangerous as they are distant, so scientists set out to simulate one in a lab. What happened next would ...

Twin jets erupt from a supermassive black hole in Draco, offering new insights into black hole activity and evolution.

For the first time, researchers have found evidence that even microquasars with low-mass stars can efficiently accelerate ...

A new analysis of M87*, the first black hole imaged by humanity, has revealed turbulence in the matter around it, which this ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...

Researchers in South Korea are developing a constellation of satellites that could reveal what goes on in the vicinity of supermassive black holes like never before.