The nearby satellite galaxy M32 can also be seen as a bright ball on the upper edge of Andromeda's disk while the milky splash of light below is in fact the elliptical galaxy Messier 110, which plays ...

NASA’s Chandra telescope found a distant black hole consuming matter at 2.4 times the Eddington limit, revealing how billion-solar-mass giants formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

Instead of quietly swallowing the gas and dust that fall into it, the black hole is blasting gas outward at record-breaking ...

M87* is a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 55 million light-years away with a mass around 6.5 billion times the mass of ...

A series of observations between 2017 and 2021 suggest the supermassive structure’s magnetized plasma is more dynamic than ...

At the heart of a quasar galaxy called RACS J0320-35, just 920 million years after the Big Bang, the black hole appears to be ...

Falling into a black hole causes time dilation, infinite visual copies, and eventual destruction at the singularity, with supermassive black holes offering the longest survival times.

“Instead of rapidly rotating as previously presumed, this black hole is belching up the gas it’s feeding on. The ferocious ...

Phoenix A, a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Phoenix Cluster, is one of the largest ever discovered, with an ...

Although this spiral galaxy appears unremarkable from afar, NGC 7456 is bursting with newborn stars and glowing gas, ...

Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than ...

Sagittarius B2, a massive molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way, is densely packed with stars and complex magnetic ...