The observation of titanic jets emerging from the supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy could be a grim ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

An international team of researchers used multi-wavelength observations of active galactic nuclei to study how black holes ...

Despite the bounce and subsequent expansion, nothing can leave the event horizon, so it expands into a new region of ...

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

NASA has discovered a supermassive black hole in galaxy M87, 52 million light-years away from Earth, using Hubble Space ...

A massive spiral galaxy with a giant black hole is shooting huge energy jets, something scientists thought only elliptical ...

Often seen as destructive, supermassive black holes could help sustain life under specific conditions, scientists have found.

There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They've certainly sparked and stretched our imaginations.

A surprising new study from Dartmouth and the University of Exeter researchers shows that when the supermassive black holes at the center of most large galaxies—including the Milky Way—consume ...

The most massive black holes can cover galaxies with immense radiation. However, this need not be harmful for possible ...