Scientists have named two systems of colliding supermassive black holes after Lord of the Rings locations, Gondor and Rohan.

New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

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Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the supermassive black hole M87* ...

Supermassive black holes rarely travel alone. Most large galaxies hide one at the center, and when galaxies collide, the two ...

Three galaxies with supermassive black holes at their centres appear to be in the process of merging into a single, giant galaxy, a process that astronomers have rarely seen. To grow to such enormous ...

In A Nutshell A black hole 200 million light-years away destroyed a star in 2018, stayed quiet for nearly 3 years, then ...

Supermassive black hole binaries form naturally when galaxies merge, but scientists have only confidently observed a very few of these systems that are widely separated. Black hole binaries that ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Located at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87), the supermassive black hole M87* holds a special place in the science ...