A supermassive black hole 300 million light-years away has astrophysicists stumped. It lurks at the center of a galaxy called SDSS1335+0728, and, since 2019, researchers have been watching in ...

Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a black hole. It was first spotted in 2018 by a camera at the Palomar ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery by catching a supermassive black hole “in the act” of awakening, located in the galaxy cluster CHIPS 1911+4455, which is an astounding 6 billion ...

A monstrous black hole in a distant galaxy has earned itself a nickname worthy of a science-fiction horror movie for its gluttonous feasting on any stars that dare get near. Meet "Space Jaws." NASA ...

When black holes emerge out of hiding to feast on their prey and some type of matter is sucked into their celestial maw, they begin to glow brightly. The events, dubbed “extreme nuclear transients,” ...

Astronomers may have just solved an intergalactic “whodunit.” Researchers traced the trajectories of super speedy stars all the way back to their sources—and they discovered strong evidence of a ...

Researchers believe the 'ultramassive' black hole is big enough to be the largest of its kind ever detected. Black holes are regions of space where the pull of gravity is so intense that even light ...

Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than theoretical predictions. Reading time 2 minutes All galaxies have a supermassive ...