For roughly half a century, astrophysicists have treated the behavior of matter around supermassive black holes as a solved ...

A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas ...

In any other year, the supermassive black hole mentioned above would probably scoop the award for most striking outburst, but not in 2025. This year, that accolade goes to a flare designated ...

A new image of M87 shows and confirms for the first time the feeding ring and jet of its supermassive black hole.

Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a ...

Astronomers have confirmed the first known triple system in which all three galaxies host actively feeding, radio-bright ...

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

A black hole the mass of at least ten million suns is tearing through space, fast enough to escape its home galaxy. As it ...

Cutting-edge supercomputer simulations reveal intricate processes around black holes, improving our understanding of ...

Astronomers have detected spacetime itself being dragged and twisted by a spinning black hole for the first time. The ...

Every now and again, a stellar object is caught zooming across space like a white rabbit, extremely late for a very important date.