Initial study showed that the LRDs are active galactic nuclei (AGN) with supermassive black holes (SMBH) in their centers.

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed a star’s survival following a tidal disruption event with a supermassive black ...

Lightning might not strike twice, but black holes apparently do. An international group of researchers led by Tel Aviv ...

With masses that dwarf anything in the stellar realm, supermassive black holes are central to galaxy evolution. This analysis compares them to other cosmic giants—like dark matter halos and galactic ...

Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has ...

Astronomers using data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a spectacular cosmic object they're calling the "Infinity Galaxy." The site of an epic head-on collision between two ...

An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

Answer 17: A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in space. A meteor is the streak of light produced when a meteoroid ...

In a discovery that could change how we understand the universe, a team of astronomers led by Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum has ...

The Infinity Galaxy is a recent discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope’s COSMOS-Web survey, found in archival data.

Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...