Supermassive black hole binaries form naturally when galaxies merge, but scientists have only confidently observed a very few ...

New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...

Inside an incredibly bright cluster of galaxies, a long-dormant supermassive black hole has come back to life. Radio images captured a one-million-light-year-long stream of star-forming particles and ...

Researchers propose a new technique to identify supermassive black hole binaries through gravitational lensing causing ...

It's nicknamed Jetty McJetface.

Some evidence of supermassive black holes influencing the gas around them has previously been seen in X-ray images. However, ...

New research reveals how quiet galactic engines can help shape entire galaxies.

There's no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new study asks whether a ...

Supermassive black holes appear early in the universe, too big to match growth models. New simulations suggest even "light seed” black holes could bulk up rapidly through frenzied feeding bursts ...

"It is amazing to see that we are gradually moving towards combining these breakthrough observations across multiple frequencies and completing the picture of the jet launching region." ...

Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the supermassive black hole M87* ...