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

Asupermassive black hole may have been caught in the act of fleeing its galaxy, carving a 200,000-light-year trail of newborn ...

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 ...

Researchers propose a new technique to identify supermassive black hole binaries through gravitational lensing causing ...

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

Some evidence of supermassive black holes influencing the gas around them has previously been seen in X-ray images. However, ...

Supermassive black holes appear early in the universe, too big to match growth models. New simulations suggest even "light seed” black holes could bulk up rapidly through frenzied feeding bursts ...

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

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

The earliest black holes in the universe may not have disappeared from Hawking radiation after all, new research hints.

It's nicknamed Jetty McJetface.

Learn how a shredded star triggered a black hole jet that evolved into a years-long energy surge that continues to intensify.