From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.

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.

The giant jet flips the script on the origins of these structures, which were once thought to be linked only to extremely ...

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 ...

Astronomers have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen — at 23 million light-years in length, they are as ...

Messier 87 (M87), also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo constellation. It is one ...

The Milky Way hosts its own supermassive black hole at its center known as Sagittarius A* (pronounced “ay star”) that is more than four million times as massive as our sun. The tiniest members ...

Furthermore, black holes’ influence can extend far beyond the galaxies in which they reside. Last year, a team of astrophysicists identified the largest-known black hole jets—streams of ...

Even though this black hole is bigger than most, the biggest black hole in the known universe is a lesser object called TON 618. Astronomers spotted an ultramassive black hole nearly 700 million ...

"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.