Deep in the cosmos, about a billion light-years away, a monster with a gargantuan appetite has woken up. For roughly 100 ...

A nearby galaxy is launching an enormous stream of super-heated gas, driven by a precessing jet from its central black hole., ...

Astronomers studying JWST’s “little red dots” suggest these early-universe objects may not be galaxies at all.

For years, strange red dots in James Webb images left scientists puzzled. New research shows they are young black holes ...

A supermassive black hole is reawakening inside a distant galaxy cluster—and after almost 100 million years of slumber, ...

Puzzling red spots in photos from the James Webb Space Telescope are probably young supermassive black holes obscured by ...

One of the most vivid portraits of "reborn" black hole activity—likened to the eruption of a "cosmic volcano" spreading ...

"This result shows that the Event Horizon Telescope is not only useful for producing spectacular images, but can also be used ...

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched unfold so quickly. Using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton and the ...

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 ...

Astronomers have finally captured a single image that shows both a black hole’s feeding ring and its blazing jet. The target is the supermassive black hole in galaxy Messier 87 (M 87), about 55 ...