One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...

For the first time, scientists have the calculations and simulations to explain mysterious flashes from the galaxy OJ 287.

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...

Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, such as explosive supernovae or ridiculously ...

Astronomers caught a rogue black hole tearing apart a star 2,600 light-years from its galaxy’s center — a first-of-its-kind ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

It’s possible that these objects might be the primordial beginnings of the supermassive black holes found in the centers of ...

Falling into a black hole causes time dilation, infinite visual copies, and eventual destruction at the singularity, with ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

It is no secret that at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, lies a supermassive black hole better known as Sagittarius A ...

Indian astronomers have discovered how supermassive black holes and their powerful jets regulate galaxy growth by halting ...