There may be some things in your life that you expect to get sucked in to; helping your friends move, a chain of cat videos on the internet, or maybe even the latest celebrity gossip headline, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Supermassive black holes, billions of times heavier than the Sun, sit at the centres of galaxies. Despite their darkness, they emit bright signals when gas spirals around them. Detecting hidden ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...