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

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

A supermassive black hole located 1.2 billion light-years away shows signs of intense activity. Observations reveal matter ...

A distant supermassive black hole has stunned astronomers by expelling matter at speeds nearing a third of light velocity after consuming material at an extreme rate. Designated PG1211+143, this ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

However, when a star gets too close to a black hole, it gets pulled in and shredded apart ... These extreme nuclear transients are giving astronomers a new tool to find supermassive black holes that ...