Some 1.2 billion light-years from Earth, a massive event is unfolding on cosmic scales. There, not two, but three galaxies ...

For roughly half a century, astrophysicists have treated the behavior of matter around supermassive black holes as a solved ...

In any other year, the supermassive black hole mentioned above would probably scoop the award for most striking outburst, but not in 2025. This year, that accolade goes to a flare designated ...

A new image of M87 shows and confirms for the first time the feeding ring and jet of its supermassive black hole.

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.

Astronomers have confirmed the first known triple system in which all three galaxies host actively feeding, radio-bright ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas ...

Three merging galaxies host three active black holes, offering rare insight into galaxy and black hole growth.

Black holes are among the most fascinating and enigmatic objects in the universe. Born from collapsed stars and governed by ...

Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...

The borderlands of black holes ought to be chaotic spaces where the rate at which matter is drawn across into oblivion is ...