Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

The strange behavior of hypervelocity stars suggests a nearby dwarf galaxy must contain a supermassive black hole. If so, a ...

The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

"Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive radio jet does not have an extreme black hole mass compared to other quasars ...

The Enigmatic Giants of the Universe Black holes, those mysterious entities lurking in the vastness of space, have always captivated the imagination of astronomers and poets alike. Their very ...

The Milky Way can be seen as something of a bully, having devoured many smaller galaxies to achieve its vast mass, and ...

Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

The centers of galaxy clusters contain the universe ... astronomers say. Supermassive black holes, regions of space where the pull of gravity is so intense that even light doesn't have enough ...