Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

At the heart of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, lurks a supermassive black hole. These cosmic giants ...

Black holes may not be as life-destroying as we thought. A surprising study reveals that the powerful radiation from active ...

Dark matter is a confounding concept that teeters on the leading edges of cosmology and physics. We don't know what it is or ...

Could black holes, which are known as the most destructive forces in the universe, create conditions on nearby planets where ...

New research reveals that high-energy radiation from active galactic nuclei could foster life on distant planets by ...

But recently astronomers have used data collected by the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft to detect three previously unknown black holes and, it turns out, are the closest known to Earth.

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 ...