For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...

We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

"Instead of Webb's 6.5-meter diameter, it's like we are observing this region with a 13-meter space telescope." ...

Inside an incredibly bright cluster of galaxies, a long-dormant supermassive black hole has come back to life. Radio images ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured infrared light from a black hole and gave scientists unprecedented insights into the ...

In a patch of sky about 1.2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three galaxies caught in a merger, and all three of their central supermassive black holes are ...

"It points to a slow starvation rather than a single dramatic death blow." ...

Space itself is scary enough—dark, vast, cold and empty—but galaxies have all manner of terrifying beasts lurking inside. Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, ...

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For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

A nearby galaxy is launching an enormous stream of super-heated gas, driven by a precessing jet from its central black hole., ...