JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

What makes red geysers stand out is that they show faint, galaxy-scale outflows of ionized gas, stretching tens of thousands ...

Astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea discovered clear evidence that a supermassive black hole can reshape a ...

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a joint mission between the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ...

New observations reveal that the relationship between ultraviolet and X-ray light in quasars has changed over billions of years. This unexpected shift suggests the structure around supermassive black ...

Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a ...

A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas that’s spawning newborn stars in its wake. Astronomers have long theorized about ...

A team of researchers recently reported the discovery of AT2024wpp, an extremely energetic event involving a black hole and a massive star locked in a deadly ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over how some massive galaxies stop forming stars and remain dormant for billions of years—even ...