Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago ...

"Many supermassive black holes may lie concealed within dusty regions of the early universe, undetected," said astronomer Takafumi Tsukui.

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Black holes may not be as life-destroying as we thought. A surprising study reveals that the powerful radiation from active ...

The observation of titanic jets emerging from the supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy could be a grim ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

The visualisation shows a black hole which, according to the account, is similar in size to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive ...

An international team of researchers used multi-wavelength observations of active galactic nuclei to study how black holes ...