In any other year, the supermassive black hole mentioned above would probably scoop the award for most striking outburst, but not in 2025. This year, that accolade goes to a flare designated ...

Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

When black holes collide, the impact radiates into space like the sound of a bell in the form of gravitational waves. But ...

Astronomers have confirmed the first known triple system in which all three galaxies host actively feeding, radio-bright ...

A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas ...

Cutting-edge supercomputer simulations reveal intricate processes around black holes, improving our understanding of ...

New observations reveal that the relationship between ultraviolet and X-ray light in quasars has changed over billions of ...

A new image of M87 shows and confirms for the first time the feeding ring and jet of its supermassive black hole.

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up everything that comes their way, but astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter ...

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.