A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new ...

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

For decades, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way was an invisible monster, betrayed only by the way ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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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 ...