On July 2, 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) captured around three hours' worth of signals that appeared ...

Reionization is thought to have been driven by ultraviolet light produced by both early stars and active galactic nuclei ...

After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of ...

Astronomers have achieved the first radio image of a supermassive black hole pair, using the retired Russian RadioAstron ...

For 50 years, astronomers have been searching for evidence of winds emanating from the black hole Sagittarius A*. Now, they ...

Most supermassive black holes don’t just swallow up matter, they eject it, sometimes in spectacular jets of super heated ...

Not only are they supermassive black holes, but they crate a unique "wagging tail" of super-charged particles.

In OJ 287, located some 3.5 billion light-years away, the intricate, extreme interplay between the two central supermassive ...

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, which swirls inward until it eventually vanishes into a gravitational ...

The discovery of a colossal black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – a dwarf galaxy that has orbited the Milky Way for billions of years – has both shocked and fascinated the global scientific ...

In the new JWST image, the jet appears as a luminous pink ribbon unfurling across a hazy violet backdrop. The stream of ...