Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

The supermassive black hole resides in a galaxy known as CEERS 1019, which existed 570 million years after the big bang. Just how the black hole existed so soon after the universe came to be ...

Small primordial black holes, born in the first moments of the Universe, might have reached supermassive sizes extremely ...

Even the largest supermassive black holes can be pushed around ... A team of astrophysicists at the Sorbonne University in Paris used state-of-the-art simulations of galaxy formation combined ...

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

Supermassive black holes are capable of violently devouring entire stars, and warping the very fabric of spacetime with their near incomprehensible mass and gravitational influence. Now, a new set ...

A supermassive black hole around a million times the mass of the Sun just gave away its position in spectacular fashion.. When a passing star veered a little too close, it was torn apart in the ...

Mergers made notable secondary contributions, especially over the past 5 billion years of cosmic time for the most-massive black holes. Overall, supermassive black holes of all masses grew much ...

The supermassive black hole formed when the universe was still a toddler, just 470 million years after the Big Bang. ... Dee Peterschmidt is a producer, host of the podcast Universe of Art, and ...

Black holes are remarkable astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape them. The most gigantic ones, known as “supermassive” black holes, can weigh ...

RIT scientists will be the lead researchers on a $1.8 million NASA grant to study electromagnetic signals from merging supermassive black holes. The team will combine astrophysical knowledge with ...

Repeated studies of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy Messier 87 confirm that it continues to act as Einstein’s theory predicted it would. By Dennis Overbye Hello darkness, our old ...