Astronomers have used the LOFAR telescope array to create the largest radio survey of the cosmos, revealing 13.7 million cosmic scenes, including supermassive black holes, merging galaxies, and ...

New research reveals that active supermassive black holes can suppress star formation in neighboring galaxies across vast ...

Flashes of gravitationally lensed starlight could act as cosmic lighthouses revealing the presence of binary supermassive ...

LOFAR’s LoTSS-DR3 survey maps 13.7 million radio sources, revealing black hole jets, supernovas, galaxy clusters and new details about magnetic fields in the Milky Way and beyond ...

New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

Learn how supermassive black holes may be suppressing star formation in nearby galaxies.

A supermassive black hole in J1007+3540 has roared back to life after 100 million years, firing jets across nearly one million light years and revealing a turbulent battle inside a galaxy cluster.

The NASA/JAXA X-ray spacecraft has allowed astronomers to dive into the metaphorical "eye of the storm" swirling around supermassive black holes.

An unusual tidal disruption event spotted by astronomers may be the result of an elusive intermediate mass black hole ripping ...

Using the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea, an international collaboration of astronomers led by scientists at Waseda University and Tohoku University of Japan have discovered an extraordinary quasar in ...

Researchers propose a new technique to identify supermassive black hole binaries through gravitational lensing causing ...

In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.