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 ...

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

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can ...

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

Although black hole radiation can be catastrophic in some cases, it may assist life once oxygen has accumulated in the planet ...

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...

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