A series of observations between 2017 and 2021 suggest the supermassive structure’s magnetized plasma is more dynamic than ...

The black hole at the centre of a galaxy more than 50 million light years away is spewing out a jet of extremely hot plasma – ...

It is a plausible scenario, according to Martin Rees, the cosmologist and former astronomer royal, because of the clumpy way in which matter spread across the early universe as it expanded. Most ...

The newly discovered 'black hole star' could explain the emergence of supermassive black holes in the early universe.

At the heart of a quasar galaxy called RACS J0320-35, just 920 million years after the Big Bang, the black hole appears to be ...

A new study shows survivor stars can live billions of years longer than normal, carrying chemical fingerprints of their ...

In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors recorded a ...

Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made by Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than ...

The black hole appears to be growing at about 2.4 times the Eddington limit, which means it is consuming the equivalent of ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered an extreme version of "little red dots" dubbed "The Cliff." Its ...

Astronomers confirmed an off-center black hole in a dwarf galaxy. It offers clues to how supermassive black holes may form.