Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

When peering into the cosmic past, the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a supermassive black hole that doesn't have a ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

With masses that dwarf anything in the stellar realm, supermassive black holes are central to galaxy evolution. This analysis compares them to other cosmic giants—like dark matter halos and galactic ...

On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* has been sonified by SYSTEM Sounds. Credit: ...

For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by Sagittarius A*, a black hole so massive that its gravity can stretch, tear, and ...