New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

New research reveals how quiet galactic engines can help shape entire galaxies.

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...

Researchers at Oxford University and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) are ...

Supermassive black hole binaries form naturally when galaxies merge, but scientists have only confidently observed a very few of these systems that are widely separated. Black hole binaries that ...

Imagine a jet of energy so powerful that it makes even Star Wars’ Death Star look tiny. That’s reportedly what astronomers ...

For a single supermassive black hole, extremely strong lensing occurs only when a star lies almost exactly along the line of ...

A black hole at the centre of a galaxy 665 million light years away is continuing to emit a jet of matter six years after ...

There's no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new study asks whether a ...

A supermassive black hole with a case of cosmic indigestion has been burping out the remains of a shredded star for four ...

XRISM measurements map gas velocities in the Perseus and Virgo clusters, separating black hole-driven turbulence from merger-driven motion using high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy.

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight Center animation. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image L ...