Scientists are diving deep into the origins of supermassive black holes, using recent gravitational wave detections as a key ...

In the last couple of decades, it’s become increasingly clear that massive galaxies like our own Milky Way host supermassive ...

"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation ...

There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy – and we may be ready to find them, scientists say. That hope comes after researchers found the first ever ...

This suggests that NGC 5084 is host to a supermassive black hole tipped on its side, and scientists think it could be evidence of a galactic collision in NGC 5084’s recent past.

The discovery could lead to the finding of more planets. Astrophysicists are marveling at the latest celestial discovery made near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. Scientists have ...

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered an important ...

Scientists observed M87’s first gamma-ray flare in a decade, revealing insights into its supermassive black hole and ...

M87 was the first black hole to be imaged, and now it's revealing details of how some elementary particles are accelerated by the universe's most extreme environments.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy may not be sleeping, after all.

In 2018, it was revealed that a pioneering telescope the size of Earth had taken, for the first time, an image of a black hole. That same instrument, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), has now ...

The discovery came in the form of a strange mark in the bright jet erupting from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A), located about 12 million light-years ...