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

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

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

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

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

The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...

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

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

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.

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

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

A distant supermassive black hole, PG1211+143, is consuming surrounding matter so rapidly it's expelling excess mass at nearly a third of light speed.