"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

Supermassive black holes are one of the universe’s greatest mysteries, however scientists continue to chip away at their ...

When gas gets pulled toward a black hole, it heats up and shines to produce light, like X-rays. The more gas a supermassive ...

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

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

A new analysis of BL Lacertae by NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer sheds light on the emission mechanisms of active ...

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

The Helix Galaxy, located 42 million light years away, is an unusual object as it is both a polar ring and a lenticular ...

The discovery was made when researchers studied the supermassive-black-hole-powered Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) of a Seyfert galaxy located about 1.2 billion light-years away.