An ancient, fast-feeding quasar is breaking the rules of how black holes consume matter and generate galaxy-shaping jets.

An exotic type of dark matter could explain some of the characteristics of our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, but ...

The NASA/JAXA X-ray spacecraft has allowed astronomers to dive into the metaphorical "eye of the storm" swirling around ...

Scientists have discovered that active supermassive black holes don't just kill their home galaxies, but can also eradicate ...

Learn how supermassive black holes may be suppressing star formation in nearby galaxies.

Supermassive black holes rarely travel alone. Most large galaxies hide one at the center, and when galaxies collide, the two ...

New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

Intense radiation emitted by active supermassive black holes—thought to reside at the center of most, if not all, galaxies—can slow star growth not just in their host galaxy, but also in galaxies ...

In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.

The Hubble and Chandra space telescopes are hunting for rogue black holes wandering through dwarf galaxies, which could provide a fossil record of how supermassive black hole growth in the early ...

During the survey, researchers identified a promising 8.19-millisecond pulsar (MSP) candidate located close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

Using the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea, an international collaboration of astronomers led by scientists at Waseda University and Tohoku University of Japan have discovered an extraordinary quasar in ...