One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

Researchers say there are far more supermassive black holes out there than we previously suspected, and they're starting to ...

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.

Priyamvada Natarajan has spent decades exploring some of the universe’s most persistent mysteries, particularly the unseen ...

For a pre-supermassive black hole object at redshift 10 (when the universe was only about 500 million years old), more than 95% of the Lyman-alpha radiation could escape and potentially be detected.

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...