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

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

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 ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

Researchers say there are far more supermassive black holes out there than we previously suspected, and they're starting to ...

Priyamvada Natarajan has spent decades exploring some of the universe’s most persistent mysteries, particularly the unseen ...

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.

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

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

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

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 ...