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

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

Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of ...

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

At the heart of the Andromeda Galaxy lies a supermassive black hole with a mass of approximately 1.5 billion times that of our sun! This black hole plays a crucial role in shaping the galaxy’s ...

In the modern universe, for galaxies close to our own Milky Way, supermassive black holes tend to have masses equal to around 0.01% of the stellar mass of their host galaxy. Thus, for every 10,000 ...

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 ...

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

Astronomers are grappling with a complex cosmic mystery lurking at the dark heart of a distant galaxy some 270 ... never been observed around a supermassive black hole before.” ...

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 ...