The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

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.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered distant, overly massive supermassive black holes in the early universe. The black holes seem way too massive compared to ...

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

And every single one of those dots would be an accreting supermassive black hole." The universe could be packed with many more monstrous black holes ravenously feeding on their surrounding ...

Rapid X-ray oscillations detected near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole could indicate the presence of a nearby orbiter such as a white dwarf ...

An international team found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies 13 billion light ...

Recently, astronomers focused on a galaxy 270 million light years away, which hosts a supermassive black hole known as 1ES 1927+654. The black hole, researchers have now observed, has been ...