Science Supermassive black holes intrigue astronomers with their ability to grow rapidly. A recent discovery reveals an ...

For the first time, NASA’s Swift Observatory has observed twin black holes disrupting a gas cloud in a galaxy’s center, ...

Astronomers trained the instrument on a number of galaxies in deep space, and at the center of one galaxy spotted a young, ...

Astronomers have discovered a rapidly feeding black hole in a dwarf galaxy from the early universe, shedding light on how ...

This illustration shows a red, early-universe dwarf galaxy that hosts a rapidly feeding black hole at its center. Using data ...

But the Webb may have just identified a solution to the dilemma as well. It has spotted a black hole that appears to have ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

The black hole’s mass is over half that of all the stars in the surrounding galaxy, a record for any galaxy hosting a quasar.

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

Back in 2009 astronomers spotted the same trend in jet knots blasted by a monster black hole in the center of M87 galaxy, ...

"For the first time, we see the creation of atoms; we can measure the temperature of the matter and see the microphysics in ...