Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole in its core. Whether the black hole forms first and then the galaxy around ...

Astronomers have uncovered a gargantuan black hole that appears to sit almost alone in space, with hardly any stars around it ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope may solve a riddle from the universe’s beginnings. A compact, distant object called “The Cliff” appears to show that many of the mysterious “little red ...

The knowledge that the galaxies in this Universe have black holes at their centers came to us gradually, like all things that have to do with space, starting in the 1970s. In the time that has passed ...

Seen from Earth, the giant elliptical galaxy M87 is just a two-dimensional blob, though one that appears perfectly symmetrical and thus a favored target of amateur astronomers. Yet, a new, highly ...

A distant black hole has just put on one of the brightest and most violent shows in the known universe, tearing apart a ...