About 3 billion years ago, the star was pulled into the gravitational confrontation of two giant black holes — and now ...

Astronomers observed the supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 ejecting ultra-fast winds after a powerful X-ray flare.

Compelling evidence that the structure of matter surrounding supermassive black holes has changed over cosmic time has been ...

For the first time, scientists have observed a swirling distortion in spacetime caused by a rapidly spinning black hole—an ...

Galaxy mergers activate supermassive black holes, Euclid data shows, revealing more AGN in merging systems and new insights into galaxy evolution ...

Scientists detect a 20-day wobble from a star-shredding black hole, confirming spacetime twisting predicted by Einstein.

A sudden black hole flare unleashed stunning, near light speed winds that echo the Sun’s most powerful eruptions.

Scientists have confirmed that colossal collisions between galaxies trigger titanic eruptions in the centers of those ...

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, discovered a rapid explosion of matter around the supermassive black hole ...

“Our latest discovery helps solve a 20-year cosmic mystery,” co-lead author Daniel Whalen from the University of Portsmouth's ...

Record-breaking ultrafast outflow (UFO) winds from a supermassive black hole flung matter across the universe close to the speed of light.