Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

A supermassive black hole located 1.2 billion light-years away shows signs of intense activity. Observations reveal matter ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

The supermassive black hole resides in a galaxy known as CEERS 1019, which existed 570 million years after the big bang. Just how the black hole existed so soon after the universe came to be ...

A supermassive black hole around a million times the mass of the Sun just gave away its position in spectacular fashion.. When a passing star veered a little too close, it was torn apart in the ...

The findings suggest black holes could provide a cheaper, natural alternative to billion-dollar particle colliders, if we can figure out how to harness them.

Black holes are remarkable astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape them. The most gigantic ones, known as “supermassive” black holes, can weigh ...

Even the largest supermassive black holes can be pushed around ... A team of astrophysicists at the Sorbonne University in Paris used state-of-the-art simulations of galaxy formation combined ...

Mergers made notable secondary contributions, especially over the past 5 billion years of cosmic time for the most-massive black holes. Overall, supermassive black holes of all masses grew much ...

Repeated studies of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy Messier 87 confirm that it continues to act as Einstein’s theory predicted it would. By Dennis Overbye Hello darkness, our old ...

These explosions, called extreme nuclear transients, shine for longer than typical supernovas and get 30 to 1,000 times as bright.

RIT scientists will be the lead researchers on a $1.8 million NASA grant to study electromagnetic signals from merging supermassive black holes. The team will combine astrophysical knowledge with ...