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

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

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead ...

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

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

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

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

A distant supermassive black hole has stunned astronomers by expelling matter at speeds nearing a third of light velocity after consuming material at an extreme rate. Designated PG1211+143, this ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

A supermassive black hole located 1.2 billion light-years away shows signs of intense activity. Observations reveal matter ...