Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole in its core. Whether the black hole forms first and then the galaxy around ...

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched ...

Astronomers have obtained the sharpest-ever X-ray spectrum of an iconic active galaxy, providing the most accurate, precise ...

Three supermassive black holes igniting at once in a single system is one of the most extreme feeding frenzies the universe ...

Astronomers have found three supermassive black holes on a collision course in a rare cosmic event, situated nearly 1.2 ...

A glowing galaxy not far from the Milky Way has been harboring a strange, puzzling secret at its core. In the center of NGC 5084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole around ...

Black holes are the most mysterious objects in the universe, with features that sound like they come straight from a sci-fi movie. Stellar-mass black holes with masses of roughly 10 suns, for example, ...

What can wandering black holes teach scientists about the formation and evolution of black holes throughout the universe? This is what a recent study accepted for publication in The Astrophysical ...

The study of black holes and the dynamics at the centres of galaxies has reached new heights with the advent of high-resolution imaging and advanced simulation techniques. Black holes, the enigmatic ...

Astronomers have confirmed the first known triple system in which all three galaxies host actively feeding, radio-bright ...

Like virtually all galaxies, the Milky Way has a monster lurking at its very core: a giant black hole, as massive as four million suns, which will swallow anything that ventures too close to its ...