"Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive radio jet does not have an extreme black hole mass compared to other quasars ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up, well, everything. They're icons of destruction, ruthless voids, ambivalent abysses ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

Space is already filled with plenty of mysteries, and black holes may be among the strangest. Here are some of the questions ...

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

Collaboration has achieved the highest-resolution Earth-based observations to date, detecting light at 345 GHz from the ...

Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has officially ended its mission to map the Milky Way after 12 years of ... Topics such as binary stars and black holes will be explored using the ...

A black hole is a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape, formed from collapsed massive stars. Black holes form when massive stars collapse under their ...

University of Arizona astronomers have now produced the highest resolution direct images ... black hole. The AGN that exists in galaxy NGC 1068, which neighbors the Milky Way, is one of the ...