Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of ...

A supermassive black hole located 1.2 billion light-years away shows signs of intense activity. Observations reveal matter ...

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

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

A distant supermassive black hole has stunned astronomers by expelling matter at speeds nearing a third of light velocity after consuming material at an extreme rate. Designated PG1211+143, this ...

A distant supermassive black hole, PG1211+143, is consuming surrounding matter so rapidly it's expelling excess mass at ...

The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate ...