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

In a significant potential shift for astrophysics, it turns out that some quasars may weigh as little as half what was previously believed.

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

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

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

Black holes like the one shown in this illustration can grow astonishingly massive by feeding on immense amounts of matter. But just how big can they get? In the early 1960s astronomers discovered a ...

Together with European astronomers, they found that the supermassive black hole in the galaxy was 10 times smaller than ...

Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes" in the early universe, less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang—a type of object that had previously escaped detection. An ...

Astronomers told the media on Thursday that, following a breakthrough study of a distant quasar, an extremely bright, active core of a very distant galaxy, the supermassive black hole at its heart has ...

"This shows how effective the approach of 'Discover with Subaru Telescope, explore with James Webb' can be." Using a powerful combination of the Subaru Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope ...

"We were amazed by the fact that these observatories can detect about 100 black holes just 250 million years after the Big Bang. Such detections would greatly help to constrain black hole formation ...

Astronomers examining data from the James Webb Space Telescope say they’ve spotted what might be the oldest black hole in the universe, born less than a second after the Big Bang. Their findings, ...