A newly discovered ultra-massive black hole (UMBH), weighing an astonishing 36 billion times the mass of the Sun, is rewriting the rules of galaxy formation. Nestled within the Cosmic Horseshoe, a ...

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...

The foreground and background galaxies are in such ... ever detected occupies the center of this enormous galaxy. "Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are found at the center of every massive galaxy ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor to the Milky Way, may house a giant black hole. It's the closest supermassive ...

Is it possible that dark matter, which makes up 85% of the cosmic matter budget, is simply a collection of primordial black holes?

Astronomers have spotted displays of flashing lights and “fireworks” near a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, a finding researchers said could reveal details about ...

A Kansas University expert has outlined why he believes images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope provide evidence the ...

A new study of super-fast-moving stars suggests that they were accelerated by a monster black hole that's been lurking unseen in the galaxy next door. This appears to be the closest supermassive ...