Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

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

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

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

The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...

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 ...

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

The discovery was made when researchers studied the supermassive-black-hole -powered Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) of a Seyfert galaxy located about 1.2 billion light-years away.

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

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" out excess mass at nearly a third of the speed of light. The discovery ...

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

A distant supermassive black hole, PG1211+143, is consuming surrounding matter so rapidly it's expelling excess mass at nearly a third of light speed.