Astronomers have spotted one of the oldest "dead" galaxies yet identified, and found that a growing supermassive black hole ...

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a joint mission between the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ...

JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have ...

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Astronomers report how a "death by a thousand blows" caused a galaxy in the early universe to stop forming stars, making it ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is finding unexpectedly many "dead" galaxies in the early universe where no stars are forming.

Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a ...

A supermassive black hole in a distant disk galaxy is behaving in a way that defies expectations, carving out a graceful S in ...