Astronomy has just revealed a cosmic monster of unprecedented scale, a black hole so colossal that it pushes the boundaries of our understanding of the Universe. This major discovery, located at ...

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 ...

New observations of M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, revealed that the supermassive blackhole has experienced several magnetic flips in the last decade.

Newly released images of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87 show that the plasma that swirls around ...

When black holes need a place to crash, they prefer a nice, bright quasar. So says Chiara Mingarelli, an assistant professor of physics in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a key member of an ...

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, ...

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 ...

"We'll have to rewrite our interpretation of these flares and what they can teach us about the monsters lying in the centers of galaxies." A distant supermassive black hole may have bitten off more ...

NEW HAVEN — A Yale University-led team of scientists say they’ve made a groundbreaking discovery: the possible birth of a supermassive black hole. The newborn black hole is believed to have formed at ...