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

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

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

Astronomers have examined an infant galaxy 12 billion light years from Earth for the first time using a new powerful ...

Astronomers told the media on Thursday that, following a breakthrough study of a distant quasar, an extremely bright, active ...

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 ...

The polarity of a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of M87, a galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, ...

The galaxy’s heart hides a cosmic giant that shouldn’t exist so soon after the Big Bang but could explain the mysterious ...

New observations of M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, revealed that the supermassive blackhole has experienced several magnetic flips in the last decade.

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

Black hole, nearly 55M light-years from Earth, was first photographed in 2017, marking humanity’s first ‘sight’ of such ...