"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

"Many supermassive black holes may lie concealed within dusty regions of the early universe, undetected," said astronomer Takafumi Tsukui.

A high school student in New York has stumbled onto a massive discovery — a cosmic light echo possibly spanning twice the ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Sometimes a galaxy's supermassive black hole "wakes up" due to a sudden influx of gas and ... hundreds of millions of years—a process impossible to track directly in the real universe. These ...

Black holes may not be as life-destroying as we thought. A surprising study reveals that the powerful radiation from active ...

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

While sifting out signatures of supernova remnants, a high-schooler stumbled upon the afterglow of a dormant black hole. It ...

Despite the bounce and subsequent expansion, nothing can leave the event horizon, so it expands into a new region of ...

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

New research challenges our understanding of black holes, proposing they may not be cosmic dead ends after all.