Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

These two small (ish) black holes were actually pulled together not by each other, but by a third supermassive black hole.

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole within a galaxy just 570 million years after the Big Bang. Part of a class of ...

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...

Building on decades of effort, Lizhong Zhang, Member (2023–24) in the School of Natural Sciences; James Stone, Professor in ...