"This result shows that the Event Horizon Telescope is not only useful for producing spectacular images, but can also be used ...

New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed ...

Astronomers have discovered that a young galaxy was gradually starved by its central supermassive black hole, in what was ...

Learn how a supermassive black hole has prevented a dead galaxy that was born soon after the Big Bang from making new stars.

Supermassive black holes are mysterious bodies. Now a new preprint study is shedding light on Sagittarius A* by studying what ...

A team of researchers recently observed a distant star that was ripped to shreds by a supermassive black hole. The tidal ...

The Circinus galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues to ...

Collapsing monster Simulation of a primordial monster star giving birth to a quasar – an extremely luminous active galactic ...

Astronomers discovered new evidence that supermassive black holes can quietly choke off star formation over time ...

The young galaxy didn't die in a one-time death blow, but rather, it was 'death by a thousand cuts.' ...

Everything about the Infinity galaxy is unusual. It looks very strange and it has a supermassive black hole pulling a lot of ...

Astronomers report how a "death by a thousand blows" caused a galaxy in the early universe to stop forming stars, making it ...