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

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

The system is known as J1218/1219+1035, and is located 1.2 billion light-years from us. The three nuclei of the three ...

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

James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest little red dots are early supermassive black holes, providing insights into cosmic evolution within the first billion years of the universe.

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up everything that comes their way, but astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered that even supermassive black ...

The discovery of a hidden supermassive black hole inside an ancient galaxy suggests that some of our universe's most extreme objects could be invisible unless observed in infrared wavelengths, James ...

Supermassive black holes have been found at the center of almost every galaxy, sucking up anything unlucky to fall into its maw — including light itself — through unfathomable gravitational forces.

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

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

Astronomers have confirmed the first known triple system in which all three galaxies host actively feeding, radio-bright supermassive black holes. The system is cataloged as J1218/1219+1035 and is ...