Using the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have detected the largest black hole jet ever seen in the early universe. It's ...

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

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 ...

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

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

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

A recent study offers a new explanation for the rapid growth of supermassive black holes in the early universe, proposing ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...

New research shows black holes can trigger gas cooling, creating fuel for their own feeding. This process keeps them growing ...

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...