Astronomers have found two actively feeding supermassive black holes separated by just 175 parsecs (570 light-years) in a galaxy seen when the universe was only about 2 billion years old. The system, ...

Black holes don’t all behave the same way, but astronomers have discovered that they may share one surprising habit. A new ...

Supermassive black holes sit at the center of galaxies, but not exclusively. Due to mergers and other cosmic interactions, it ...

Astronomers observed a supermassive black hole in the Perseus Cluster consuming matter and emitting radio jets 300 days later ...

The research, led by Dr. Adelle Goodwin of Curtin University’s International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and ...

Could black holes have planets? New research says yes, they could. New simulations suggest massive planets could form in the ...

Scientists have just confirmed finding the most distant blazar to date. Designated OP 313, this blazar is located about 8 ...

Astronomers found preliminary evidence of a roughly 300-day delay between an X-ray flare and stronger radio emission from NGC ...

Picture a scar roughly 700 light-years long, carved into the X-ray sky by something nobody can identify. NASA's Chandra X-ray ...

Scientists don’t know what they’ll find until they find it.

Black holes are already some of the strangest objects in the universe, but scientists now say they could unlock an even more ...

Black-Hole Jets Reach Beyond Galaxies A study of 324 galaxies has found evidence that powerful jets launched by supermassive ...