At the heart of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, lurks a supermassive black hole. These cosmic giants ...

Although black hole radiation can be catastrophic in some cases, it may assist life once oxygen has accumulated in the planet ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. These powerful objects sometimes enter active galactic nucleus (AGN) mode, where they pull in gas and ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ...

The researchers propose that this ejection resulted from the collision of two galaxies, causing their central black holes to ...

Scientists reclassified PBC J2333.9-2343 as a blazar after its jet shifted toward Earth. Discover why this black hole is ...

The origin of the universe and everything that happened during its early days is and always will be one of the great mysteries for mankind. Only a small percentage of the beginning ...

Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery: a blazar, a highly active and luminous galactic nucleus powered by a supermassive black hole, that existed just one billion years after the Big Bang.

The brightness of the Milky Way and the nucleus of the rest of the galaxies is a characteristic of most galaxies. This brightness is mainly a result of the dense population of stars within a galaxy’s ...

“When a black hole at the center of a galaxy starts feeding, it unleashes a tremendous amount of energy into its surroundings, transforming into what we call an active galactic nucleus,” Pucha ...