JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

Space itself is scary enough—dark, vast, cold and empty—but galaxies have all manner of terrifying beasts lurking inside. Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, ...

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 ...

Observations of the galaxy carried out by the Hubble Space Telescope confirmed the presence of two nuclei separated by a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have detected what may be the most massive black ...

The knowledge that the galaxies in this Universe have black holes at their centers came to us gradually, like all things that have to do with space, starting in the 1970s. In the time that has passed ...