The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...

Astronomers have identified a rare cosmic phenomenon: a supermassive black hole, known as J0410−0139, located 12.9 billion ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

A supermassive black hole has been discovered by astronomers that's shooting a giant energy beam directly at Earth.

Supermassive black holes with powerful jets of high-energy particles, pointing directly at Earth are called blazars.

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

NASA telescopes reveal 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden by dust, reshaping theories about their role in galaxy ...

Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

Black hole quantum effects are usually thought to be too small to have any observable signatures. This is indeed the case for ...