New observations and simulations by a team of researchers led by MPE reveal that a massive binary star near our galaxy's ...

The pair are located in the galaxy Markarian 501, around 500 million light-years from Earth ...

In a galaxy 500 million light-years away, two supermassive black holes could merge, spreading gravitational waves across the ...

Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are one of the most active fields of research in astronomy. In order to accumulate their enormous masses, they must merge with each other. A ...

According to models, as supermassive black holes orbit each other, they transfer their orbital energy to the stars and gas ...

A black hole awoke after 100 million years and triggered a massive cosmic eruption that is warping its entire galaxy.

A colossal “cosmic volcano” has erupted in deep space, as a supermassive black hole in galaxy J1007+3540 roars back to life ...

Supermassive black holes literally don’t add up. Astrophysicists know it takes more time than is mathematically possible for one of them to reach its incomprehensible proportions via standard gas ...

A supermassive black hole binary system (two black holes orbiting each other) has been directly identified in the final ...

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched unfold so quickly. Using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton and the ...

The knowledge that the galaxies in this Universe have black holes at their centers came to us gradually, like all things that have to do with space, starting in the 1970s. In the time that has passed ...

Supermassive black holes rarely travel alone. Most large galaxies hide one at the center, and when galaxies collide, the two central black holes can end up bound together. Astronomers have seen plenty ...