A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

According to NASA, "there are hundreds of them"—massive black holes roaming space. It is now emerging and reshaping the ...

If you look up on a clear night from a darksky location, you might see the Milky Way as a faint band of thousands of stars.

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

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we ...

A team of scientists including the University of Toronto's Bart Ripperda and Braden Gail - assistant professor and graduate student, respectively, at ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

The image of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of massive elliptical galaxy M87, changed the world. It was the ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time ...

A team that included University of Arizona astronomers captured the infrared image of the supermassive black hole using a Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.

Discover how researchers found a bizarre black hole feeding at an exceptional rate, challenging theories on black hole growth ...