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

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

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

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 ...

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." ...

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

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

From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...

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

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

By studying the fastest jet ever seen erupting from an infant star, astronomers have discovered that the mechanism that ...