At the heart of some galaxies lie extremely bright spots—far too luminous to be lit by stars alone. Each glowing core ...

Astronomers have studied nine local galaxies to discover how shock waves from the galaxies' central supermassive black holes ...

Scientists have discovered the fastest known star in the Milky Way, zipping around the supermassive black hole at the centre ...

Near the center of the Milky Way, a star is racing around Sagittarius A* at speeds reaching 25 000 km/s. Named S301, it is ...

Scientists have found evidence that black holes of vastly different sizes may launch powerful jets according to the same universal rule. Supermassive black holes can produce jets soon after tearing ...

A new study suggests that the young stars orbiting the Milky Way's central black hole may have a surprisingly ordinary origin ...

Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole. The few that don't have had theirs ejected during a galactic collision.

Villanova astrophysicist Becka Phillipson wondered what a black hole might sound like. She found an answer by translating ...

Supermassive black holes discovered by eROSITA have grown to more than ten times their expected mass relative to their host ...

The eRosita X-ray telescope has discovered eight galaxies whose central black holes are significantly more massive than those ...

How did black holes in the early universe grow to tens of millions of times the mass of the Sun?It was thought that black ...

Black holes can suppress star formation, but nine nearby galaxies reveal how their outflows could also help trigger the birth ...