But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" out excess mass at nearly a third of the speed of light.

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...

Astronomers detect 10 billion-year-old radio waves from a distant galaxy cluster SpARCS1049, revealing a mini-halo that ...