Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with supermassive black holes, surrounded by ... X-Ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole ...

Space.com was on duty all year to bring you the major developments in the science of the universe's most fascinating entities: black holes. Our fascination with black holes is pretty ...

An illustration of two black holes about to merge into one. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) The finding about LID-568's feeding frenzy was far from the last word on early supermassive black hole ...

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a cluster of stellar-mass black holes. New research may have delivered bad ...

The jets extending from these blazars can extend millions of light-years in length. Black holes are among the most mysterious cosmic objects, much studied but not fully understood. In pursuit of ...

While the black hole’s gravity may pull the white dwarf inward, the star is also shedding part of its outer layer into the black hole. This shedding acts as a small kick-back, such that the white ...

"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation in detail." NASA's James Webb Space Telescope found evidence that ...

As far as supermassive black holes go, the one at the center of the Milky Way is relatively sedate. But, even in its supposed quiescent state, Sagittarius A* is prone to the occasional belch or ...

Binary black holes could form in merging galaxies Light variations suggest binary black holes in PG 1553+153 Gravitational waves may confirm binary black hole systems ...

An active galactic nucleus (AGN) is a region at the center of a galaxy where a supermassive black hole is actively consuming surrounding material. As this matter spirals toward the black hole, it ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Astronomers have discovered hundreds of hidden supermassive black holes lurking in the universe — ...

Simulation of two colliding supermassive black holes emitting gravitational waves that could be detected with this novel method. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data ...