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

Galaxy mergers are not uncommon throughout the Universe; in fact, they're thought to be one of the major mechanisms whereby ...

Astronomers have found three supermassive black holes on a collision course in a rare cosmic event, situated nearly 1.2 ...

Using the ALMA telescope in Chile, an international research team examined seven pairs of merging galaxies to come to the ...

New observations reveal that the relationship between ultraviolet and X-ray light in quasars has changed over billions of ...

Supermassive black holes, which can possess millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun, are believed to grow by consuming material and merging with other black holes during galactic collisions.

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

A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas ...

A new study on some 1,600 galaxies based on data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that many small galaxies do not ...

Scientists say they've spotted the first runaway supermassive black hole that's rocketing away from its home at a staggering speed.

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

Some galaxies could grow so large by consuming one star from a binary system. April 8, 2012— -- For years, astronomers have puzzled over the diet needed to bulk up supermassive black holes – ...