Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered the largest and most extended stream of ...

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

A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched ...

Astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea discovered clear evidence that a supermassive black hole can reshape a galaxy, the observatory announced on Jan. 8.

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

A wobbling jet from a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy is blasting gas out at a rate high enough to suppress star formation.

Astronomers have captured the moment a supermassive black hole literally tore apart a super sun (one 30 times larger than our own) and released a burst of energy equivalent to 400 billion suns.

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way apparently flared up dramatically relatively recently. An echo of ...