NGC 7496, a dusty barred spiral galaxy located 24 million light-years away in the constellation Grus, harbors a ravenous supermassive black hole at its core.

A supermassive black hole 17 billion times the sun’s mass consumes the equivalent of one sun per day and shines 500 trillion ...

The sounds aren't just a scientific curiosity, though. The tenuous gas and plasma that drifts between the galaxies in galaxy ...

Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) made history in 2019 by producing the first image of a black hole. The ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

It’s possible that these objects might be the primordial beginnings of the supermassive black holes found in the centers of ...

For the first time, astronomers have gotten a detailed look at how a supermassive black hole (SMBH) eats, discovering two ...

Ultra-low frequency nanohertz gravitational waves emanating from pulsars may be revealing the fabric of the universe.

Astronomers have discovered that a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Circinus galaxy is feeding through two ...

They call it dark matter—an invisible substance thought to make up most of the universe’s mass, sculpting galaxies and clusters with its gravity. Now, researchers say they have spotted the smallest ...

The most wholesome 40-ish minutes I spent with a game this Steam Next Fest came courtesy of Winter Burrow's demo, which was ...

Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...