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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing ...

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

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