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

"The singularity is the most mysterious and problematic part of a black hole. It's where our concepts of space and time ...

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

The black hole examined by the team is no small cosmic object. It is more than a billion times the mass of our Sun. Despite ...

NGC 4941 dazzles in a new Hubble image, showcasing star-forming regions and a supermassive black hole that dramatically ...

Magnetic fields twist around the black hole as it rotates to store energy – kind of like when you pull and twist a rubber band. When you release the rubber band, it snaps forward. Similarly, the ...

Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole? New research seems to suggest this possibility. NASA's James Webb Telescope discovered that the rotation of the galaxies goes against what ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago, according to new research published in Nature Astronomy from an ...

Astronomers have detected an erupting supermassive black hole producing some of the largest jets ever seen bursting from a galaxy with the same shape as our own. The galaxy in question also ...

A mysterious class of small, red objects in the early universe might be explained by black holes inside dense cocoons of gas, like a star. Since launching in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope ...

A rare instance of a supermassive black hole merger has been observed, resulting in a black hole exhibiting an unusually high proper motion. The New Scientist reported that this event holds ...