Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...

QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.

For roughly half a century, astrophysicists have treated the behavior of matter around supermassive black holes as a solved ...

New XRISM X-ray observations reveal details of gas near a supermassive black hole in galaxy MCG–6-30-15, helping scientists better measure black hole spin and behavior ...

A new image of M87 shows and confirms for the first time the feeding ring and jet of its supermassive black hole.

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched ...

Three supermassive black holes igniting at once in a single system is one of the most extreme feeding frenzies the universe ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever ...

In a patch of sky about 1. 2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three galaxies caught in ...

Physicists may soon witness a cosmic fireworks show: the explosive death of a primordial black hole. Once thought to be unimaginably rare, new research suggests there’s up to a 90% chance of catching ...

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.

Scientists at Dartmouth and the University of Exeter have discovered that radiation emitted by supermassive black holes can have a surprising, nurturing effect on life. According to NASA, supermassive ...