Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than ...

One of the most powerful black holes in the universe is belching out gas at speeds of up to 10,000 kilometers per second, ...

Astronomers from the University of Southampton made the unexpected discovery while examining an infant galaxy 12 billion ...

Since the 1970s, astronomers have predicted that Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, ...

Astronomers detected a black hole displaced nearly a kiloparsec from the center of a dwarf galaxy 230 million light-years ...

"This tells us that the magnetized plasma swirling near the event horizon is far from static; it's dynamic and complex, ...

The team examined an ancient quasar which they described as “a galaxy with a black hole so old and bright it looks like a cosmic beacon from the dawn of time”. Their study showed that the quasar had a ...

Astronomers told the media on Thursday that, following a breakthrough study of a distant quasar, an extremely bright, active core of a very distant galaxy, the supermassive black hole at its heart has ...

Scientists spotted an enormous black hole in the early universe that's growing at 2.4 times the theoretical Eddington limit.

Event Horizon Telescope data reveal the magnetic field around M87* shifted, weakened and then flipped, defying theoretical expectations.

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...