A nearby galaxy is launching an enormous stream of super-heated gas, driven by a precessing jet from its central black hole., ...
JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...
Deep in the cosmos, about a billion light-years away, a monster with a gargantuan appetite has woken up. For roughly 100 ...
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Black holes usually form from stars that burn out and collapse in on themselves, but that cannot explain the red spark of light that could be a ...
For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...
Astronomers are gradually peeling away its secrets, and in a recent study, a team at Cardiff University, UK, has provided key ...
Observations of the galaxy carried out by the Hubble Space Telescope confirmed the presence of two nuclei separated by a ...
In a patch of sky about 1.2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three galaxies caught in a merger, and all three of their central supermassive black holes are ...
The discovery of a hidden supermassive black hole inside an ancient galaxy suggests that some of our universe's most extreme objects could be invisible unless observed in infrared wavelengths, James ...