A supermassive black hole that doesn't appear to be where we would expect seems to be travelling at more than a thousand ...

Scientists are working to identify an oddly pulsating, supermassive black hole ( SMBH) that pulled a really weird stunt. More ...

Black hole singularities should not exist, according to theories of quantum mechanics. New tweaks to Einstein's equations of ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

DESI, which will be scanning the sky for five more years, is expected to observe around 40 million galaxies and quasars ...

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists witnessed a brilliant light show at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might help them reconcile gravity and quantum ...

which allowed us to better zoom in on the center of galaxies and identify the subtle signatures of active black holes,” explained researcher Stephanie Juneau of NSF NOIRLab. “With other fiber ...

each spiraling around one of the black holes,” explained Northwestern University’s Fulya Kıroğlu. open image in gallery In stellar clusters, binary black holes can collide with massive stars.