Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive ...

For decades, black holes have been categorized into three main types: stellar-mass black holes, which weigh between five and ...

The team observed two merging galaxies and discovered that the energy from a quasar is actively transforming the gas within its companion galaxy, thereby dictating whether new stars can form.

Whereas scientists have observed plenty of stellar mass black holes and SMBHs, evidence of IMBHs has been a lot harder to come by. That has posed a problem: IMBHs are thought to be the transitional ...

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The sharpest images of the universe are created when radio telescopes around the world work together. For the first time, the ...

A new cosmic deep field map from the COSMOS collaboration, powered by the James Webb Space Telescope, is rewriting what ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured a striking image of a distant quasar from the "cosmic noon," including a giant energy jet "being illuminated by the leftover glow from the Big Bang itself ...

By using light to emulate the structure of space-time, researchers can better understand black holes – and the exotic objects ...

Known for its large mass despite emitting very little light, Segue 1 is traditionally viewed as a prime candidate for studying dark matter-dominated galaxies. However, the unique investigation ...

Using a neural network trained with simulations of supermassive black holes, astronomers have found that the one at the ...

A cloud of energetic gas lit up by a collision of galaxies spans nearly 20 million light-years, leading astronomers to ...