Scientists have discovered that active supermassive black holes don't just kill their home galaxies, but can also eradicate ...

An ancient, fast-feeding quasar is breaking the rules of how black holes consume matter and generate galaxy-shaping jets.

Cosmic relationships in space mirror human connections, with some stars locked in destructive, codependent partnerships.

This disk-like structure emitting thermal light is called an accretion disk. Note that other objects can also lead to accretion disk, like a forming planet or star.

In the early 1960s, Dutch astronomer Adriaan Blaauw observed stars moving at unusually high speeds moving through the Milky ...

The NASA/JAXA X-ray spacecraft has allowed astronomers to dive into the metaphorical "eye of the storm" swirling around supermassive black holes.

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There's no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new study asks whether a ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting the same gravitational influence, astronomers say. They ...

Previous observations of stars whipping around an unseen mass—especially a bright star called S2—have pointed to an object ...

What if the Milky Way’s central “black hole” isn’t a black hole at all? A new model proposes that an ultra-dense dark matter core could mimic its gravitational pull.

A supermassive black hole roughly 660 million light-years from Earth has been caught firing off a blast of energy that dwarfs ...