It’s possible that these objects might be the primordial beginnings of the supermassive black holes found in the centers of ...

For the first time, astronomers have gotten a detailed look at how a supermassive black hole (SMBH) eats, discovering two ...

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, which swirls inward until it eventually vanishes into a gravitational ...

The concept of two black holes orbiting one another has been theorized for many years, but recent satellite photography may ...

A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...

A black hole far from its galactic center has unleashed the fastest, brightest radio flares ever seen from a star’s destruction. For the first time, astronomers have detected a tidal disruption event ...

When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they ...

Astronomers used the ALMA radio array in Chile to show that two narrow spiral arms are funneling gas toward the central ...

After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of ...

Supermassive black holes stand out for their fundamental role in the evolution of galaxies and the history of the universe.

"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...