It's one of astronomy's great mysteries: how did black holes get so big, so massive, so quickly. An answer to this cosmic ...

Astronomers at W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea discovered “the clearest evidence yet that a supermassive black hole can ...

A nearby active galaxy called VV 340a offers a dramatic look at how a supermassive black hole can reshape its entire host.

The James Webb Space Telescope snapped its sharpest image of the area around a black hole, solving a long-standing galactic ...

Radio telescopes let you study the universe by collecting faint radio waves from distant objects. To see extremely small ...

Japanese astronomers have discovered an extraordinary supermassive black hole in the early universe that ...

"It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most massive black holes in the universe." ...

NASA has revealed the sharpest ever look at the edge of a black hole, and it could solve a decades–old galactic mystery.

Astronomers have identified a nearby galaxy whose central activity seems to be changing its long-term future. This galaxy, VV 340a, contains a superma.

It is theoretically possible for a particularly massive star to collapse in on itself to form a black hole rather than ...

A nearby galaxy is being slowly suffocated from the inside out. At its core, a supermassive black hole is firing a lopsided, ...

Astronomy sometimes reserves unexpected observations for us, as illustrated by the stellar explosion SN 2022esa. It displayed ...