Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a ...

New observations reveal that the relationship between ultraviolet and X-ray light in quasars has changed over billions of ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

This ancient dormant black hole didn’t just grow quickly—it may have shaped the galaxies around it. Representing 40% of its ...

A supermassive black hole residing within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - a satellite galaxy - is on a collision course ...

Galaxy mergers are not uncommon throughout the Universe; in fact, they're thought to be one of the major mechanisms whereby ...

Supermassive black holes, which can possess millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun, are believed to grow by consuming material and merging with other black holes during galactic collisions.

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up everything that comes their way, but astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter ...

A black hole the mass of at least ten million suns is tearing through space, fast enough to escape its home galaxy. As it ...

As the Large Magellanic Cloud drifts closer to the Milky Way, its newly discovered black hole may one day encounter ...

A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas ...

In any other year, the supermassive black hole mentioned above would probably scoop the award for most striking outburst, but not in 2025. This year, that accolade goes to a flare designated ...