Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive ...

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

"The appearance of such structures sheds new light on the sorts of mathematical objects that nature is built from." ...

Supermassive black holes are behemoths that weigh in at several million to billion times the mass of our own sun. Like their ...

Researchers have discovered that ultra-fast wind surrounding a supermassive black hole is not smooth and continuous as ...

A study published in Nature has established a new benchmark in modeling the universe's most extreme events: the collisions of ...

Astronomers have detected a rare black hole outside a galaxy’s core devouring a star in the first known offset tidal ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...

Understanding them opens new perspectives on galaxy evolution and black hole physics. Researchers now plan to apply these findings to supermassive black holes. The inner edge of the gas disk rapidly ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have successfully demonstrated the ‘Black Hole Bomb’ theory in a laboratory setting, marking a historic milestone in our understanding of black holes. This ...

The Milky Way Galaxy is full of cosmic objects of varying shapes and sizes — sometimes resembling objects here on Earth. A galactic center radio filament called G359.13142-0.20005 (or G359.13 ...

In a groundbreaking experiment, scientists have recreated an effect known as the black hole bomb in a laboratory setting, confirming a theory first proposed more than 50 years ago. Physicists from the ...