Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

Researchers discovered a large black hole jet from the early universe, and it's reshaping what we know about the early ...

Astronomers have observed two distant galaxies that are heavily distorted. This spectacular image is caused by the presence ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87 has long been a subject of intrigue for astronomers. Recently, LiveScience reported groundbreaking findings about this colossal cosmic entity, ...

A new paper claims astronomers discovered an ultramassive black hole heavier than any other black hole we've ever measured.

In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating ...

A distant supermassive black hole, PG1211+143, is consuming surrounding matter so rapidly it's expelling excess mass at ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

Astronomers detect an ultramassive black hole weighing 36 billion suns in the galaxy LRG 3-757, a record thanks to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed a surprising alignment in the spin directions of ancient galaxies, challenging ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made a shocking discovery that our universe might be inside a huge ...

New evidence and properties of intermediate-mass black holes have been discovered with help from RIT researchers, as ...