Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a large black hole inside the neighbouring ...

A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic ...

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

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

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 ...

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

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

An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole located at the center of our galaxy. This is the first time a pair of stars ...

Supermassive black ... The centers of galaxy clusters contain the universe’s most massive galaxies, which, in turn, contains gigantic black holes ranging in mass from millions to tens of ...

Even more surprisingly, the black hole that powers the quasar from which this jet erupts, designated J1601+3102, is relatively small. (For a quasar-powering supermassive black hole, that is.