In this clip, American astrobiologist Caleb Scharf tells presenter Bridget Kendall about supermassive black holes and argues ...

Long before researchers knew about quasars or black holes, astronomers were photographing what is now known as Quasar OJ287.

"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered the first tidal disruption event (TDE) producing bright radio emission ...

On July 2, 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) captured around three hours' worth of signals that appeared ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a ...

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...

Reionization is thought to have been driven by ultraviolet light produced by both early stars and active galactic nuclei ...

After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of ...

Astronomers have achieved the first radio image of a supermassive black hole pair, using the retired Russian RadioAstron ...

For 50 years, astronomers have been searching for evidence of winds emanating from the black hole Sagittarius A*. Now, they ...

Most supermassive black holes don’t just swallow up matter, they eject it, sometimes in spectacular jets of super heated ...