Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...

ASTRONOMERS have identified 53 previously unknown quasars powered by supermassive black holes whose jets hurl matter at ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...