Scientists are using pulsars to detect the gravitational wave 'hum' created from supermassive black hole mergers. Credit: ...
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 recently made a breakthrough studying the supermassive black hole M87*, a behemoth six and a half billion ...
In a breakthrough study that redefines how we view the heart of our galaxy, astronomers have captured the first-ever direct ...
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...
In OJ 287, located some 3.5 billion light-years away, the intricate, extreme interplay between the two central supermassive ...
Most supermassive black holes don’t just swallow up matter, they eject it, sometimes in spectacular jets of super heated ...
For 50 years, astronomers have been searching for evidence of winds emanating from the black hole Sagittarius A*. Now, they finally think they have an answer.
Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black ...
Astronomers have achieved the first radio image of a supermassive black hole pair, using the retired Russian RadioAstron ...
Astronomers say that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted the universe's first "dark stars" that are fuelled by ...