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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...