QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.

Back in the day, from 2012 through 2015, when the Seattle Seahawks led the NFL in scoring defense in every one of those ...

Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched ...

Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

For the first time, NASA Chandra X-ray telescope has been used to discover a pair of black holes in dwarf galaxies that are ...

In a patch of sky about 1. 2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three galaxies caught in ...

A supermassive black hole residing within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - a satellite galaxy - is on a collision course ...

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar created a black hole that would later turn out to be fairly scientifically accurate.

Astronomers have seen spacetime itself wobble near a spinning black hole for the first time. The discovery, revealed during a star’s destruction, confirms a major prediction of Einstein’s theory of ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...