The researchers say that the most likely explanation is that it's a shock wave from past activity in the galaxy, which could ...

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

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

One of the most powerful black holes in the universe is belching out gas at speeds of up to 10,000 kilometers per second, ...

NASA has partnered with Katalyst to prevent a $500 million observatory from re-entering Earth's atmosphere by deploying a ...

Since the 1970s, astronomers have predicted that Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered an extreme version of "little red dots" dubbed "The Cliff." Its ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

Event Horizon Telescope data reveal the magnetic field around M87* shifted, weakened and then flipped, defying theoretical expectations.

The polarity of a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of M87, a galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe. For decades, physicists believed their explosive deaths ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured a solar-system-size corona around a distant supermassive black hole, thanks to a rare cosmic alignment.