The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...

When galaxies collide, it's not a gentle affair, but it does take millions of years. Over this time, the two massive star ...

Astronomers have achieved the first radio image of a supermassive black hole pair, using the retired Russian RadioAstron ...

Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black ...

Most supermassive black holes don’t just swallow up matter, they eject it, sometimes in spectacular jets of super heated ...

The complex dance of two black holes locked in a doomed orbit has been revealed in a first-of-its-kind direct radio image. It's the first time astronomers have directly imaged the distinct jets of ...

Astronomers have recently made a breakthrough studying the supermassive black hole M87*, a behemoth six and a half billion ...

For 50 years, astronomers have been searching for evidence of winds emanating from the black hole Sagittarius A*. Now, they ...

In a breakthrough study that redefines how we view the heart of our galaxy, astronomers have captured the first-ever direct evidence of hot winds emanating from Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the Milky ...

After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of ...

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, which swirls inward until it eventually vanishes into a gravitational ...

Astronomers from the University of Southampton made the unexpected discovery while examining an infant galaxy 12 billion ...