Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...

Euclid telescope data shows merging galaxies are 2–6 times more likely to host active supermassive black holes, revealing how ...

On a scale that stretches human intuition, a distant supermassive black hole has hurled matter into space at 134 million ...

A rocky exoplanet outside the Earth's solar system may have an atmosphere, according to new evidence gathered by NASA ...

NASA’s Chandra Observatory has produced vivid, energy-segmented X-ray maps of galaxy clusters, revealing shock waves, cooling ...

NASA's Chandra telescope has used a novel "X-arithmetic" technique to analyse X-ray data from galaxy clusters, showing how supermassive black holes influence hot gas structures and offering new ...

Astronomers are learning more about the origins of supermassive black holes after new data is revealed from a 20-year-long ...

NASA’s new X‑ray images reveal how supermassive black holes sculpt galaxy clusters. Jets, bubbles, and ripples reshape cosmic ...

A black hole 30 million times the mass of the sun has produced winds one-fifth the speed of light, stunning scientists.

The Würzburg-led research unit "Relativistic Jets in Active Galaxies" has been investigating the powerful plasma beams emitted by supermassive black ...

The phenomenon, caused by a rapidly spinning black hole, confirms a general relativity prediction by Einstein, made more than a century ago. The process, named Lense-Thirring precession or ...

NASA’s Chandra telescope uses a new X-arithmetic method to compare X-ray energies and show how supermassive black holes shape galaxy clusters and galaxy groups, revealing differences in gas movement a ...