Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive black holes discovered yet. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada ; N. Risinger (skysurvey ...

"Finding supermassive black holes at the time when the universe was less than 1 billion years old is like finding some mammal bones among the dinosaur bones in a Jurassic sedimentary rock." ...

And the supermassive black hole at its center is shooting an outstretched beam of energy into space. The Hubble Space ...

Star explosions called novas are happening twice as often near a gargantuan black hole jet as they are in the rest of the ...

M87 is one of the larger galaxies in our local patch of the Universe, and its central black hole has active jets. During an earlier period of regular observations, the Hubble Space Telescope had found ...

A dazzling new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a bright spiral galaxy on a diagonal tilt, resembling a ...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that stars appear to erupt along the path of a supermassive ...

In a fascinating new study, physicists from MIT propose that a small wobble in Mars’ orbit might help solve one of the ...

"If there are lots of black holes out there, some of them must surely pass through our backyard every now and then." ...

The researchers, comprising MIT physicists, backed up their theory with a simulation of Mars’ orbit which aligned with their ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

An issue called the final parsec problem detailed the theoretical difficulty in bringing supermassive black holes close ...