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

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

By zeroing in on the infrared scale, researchers offer details of the black hole jet stream in faraway galaxy M87.

Supermassive black holes stand out for their fundamental role in the evolution of galaxies and the history of the universe.

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A black hole far from its galactic center has unleashed the fastest, brightest radio flares ever seen from a star’s destruction. For the first time, astronomers have detected a tidal disruption event ...

Astronomers used the ALMA radio array in Chile to show that two narrow spiral arms are funneling gas toward the central ...

A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...

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

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, which swirls inward until it eventually vanishes into a gravitational ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...