But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" out excess mass at nearly a third of the speed of light.

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...

Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...

In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of ...