Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...

An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole ...

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains of a star were found around a hungry black hole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Spa ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

By revealing a massive radio jet in the early universe, J1601+3102 offers a rare snapshot of early quasar activity.

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

New research shows black holes can trigger gas cooling, creating fuel for their own feeding. This process keeps them growing ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

Astronomers have discovered a truly ancient monster: a radio jet 200,000 light-years wide, originating from when the universe ...

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

For the first time, researchers have found evidence that even microquasars with low-mass stars can efficiently accelerate ...