New observations suggest that the relationship between light emitted by quasars has changed over cosmic time, hinting that ...

James Webb Space Telescope confirms the first runaway supermassive black hole in the Cosmic Owl galaxy, observing its tail and bow shock, providing direct evidence of black hole ejection during galaxy ...

The black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy is 1000 times more massive than Sagittarius A*. Watch views of both captured ...

Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...

Euclid telescope data shows merging galaxies are 2–6 times more likely to host active supermassive black holes, revealing how ...

The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has been sharped using a machine learning technique called PRIMO. PRIMO is short ...

A team of astronomers has discovered a supermassive black hole that is 100 million times the mass of the sun. This impressive discovery was found using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) ...

Jets near supermassive black holes are speeding up when they should be cruising. That is what a fresh look at the sharpest radio images suggests. A team working from institutes in Bonn and Granada ...

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is home to multiple wonders. There is our biggest star, VY Canis Majoris, the column-like structures known as the Pillars of Creation, and, in the middle of it all, a ...

Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed “Superman,” the flare originated 10 billion light-years from Earth, and at its peak, ...

A supermassive black hole appears to have generated a record flare after gobbling a star at least 30 times more massive than the sun. The event has yet to be confirmed as a tidal disruption event (TDE ...

Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns. These bursts of light and energy can come from things like tangled-up ...