This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. There are two main ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

"Many supermassive black holes may lie concealed within dusty regions of the early universe, undetected," said astronomer ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago ...

Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic ...

"There are these outer regions of gas being ionized by a supermassive black hole, which results in this echo," Shapiro said ...