"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We asked ourselves: How can we make sense of this?" ...

Astronomers using JWST and other telescopes found a supermassive black hole floating between two colliding galaxies — not in ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as gravitational waves.

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...

NASA's newest astronomical instrument, the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), launched into orbit last September ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts brighter than 100 supernovae. By mixing NASA, ESA, and ground-based data, ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions of times more than our sun, in galaxies that formed less than 750 ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding supermassive black hole.

A distant supermassive black hole has stunned astronomers by expelling matter at speeds nearing a third of light velocity after consuming material at an extreme rate.