International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...

One supermassive black hole has kept astronomers glued to their scopes for the last several years. First came a surprise ...

An effort to find some of the biggest, most active black holes in the universe provides a better estimate for the ratio of ...

A mysterious black hole has started behaving even more strangely, scientists have said. The supermassive black hole has been ...

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This illustration shows a binary black hole at the centre of the quasar Markarian 231, outshining billions of stars. This image shows a possible seed for a supermassive black hole. Two seeds were ...

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First came a surprise disappearance, and now, a precarious spinning act. The black hole in question is 1ES 1927+654, which is ...

"For such a faint and unknown target, we were not sure if we would get any data at all — but the strategy worked." ...

Galaxy clusters are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars.