A new study shows that black holes consume gas which creates an outburst that cools nearby gas for the black hole to consume ...

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

Using the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have detected the largest black hole jet ever seen in the early universe. It's ...

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

"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

"Little red dot" galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early cosmos appear to be ruled by supermassive black holes that are 1,000 times too massive.

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

previously stunned astronomers when its corona — a billion-degree cloud of rapidly moving particles enveloping a black hole — suddenly vanished. (It's since returned.) Now, scientists have ...

Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...

In 2018, astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed that the black hole's corona -- a cloud of whirling, white-hot plasma -- suddenly disappeared, before reassembling months later. The brief though ...