Some stars encounter supermassive black holes and live to tell the tale. New research shows why the flares these encounters ...

By combining roughly two decades of observations from NASA's Swift X-ray Telescope with radio monitoring, astronomers have ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Black holes usually form from stars that burn out and collapse in on themselves, but that cannot explain the red spark of light that could be a ...

Astronomers have found stars that repeatedly skim past supermassive black holes, surviving each encounter while producing a new burst of light. In some systems, those flares mysteriously fade with ...

For decades, Sagittarius A* has been treated as the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. But a new ...

Scientists say they have detected evidence of cosmic-scale wind coming from a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, potentially solving one of the longest-standing mysteries in ...

A greedy galaxy that existed less than 1.3 billion years after the Big Bang is hoarding supermassive black holes. That's three times longer than the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered that ...

JWST has captured unusually detailed images of gas feeding the supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 4696. A vast filament appears to funnel material into an 800-light-year-wide spinning disk, ...

Scientists have discovered the first-ever confirmed "runaway" supermassive black hole (SMBH). The black hole is estimated to have the mass of 20 million suns and is moving away from its original ...

Nearly every massive galaxy observed hosts a supermassive black hole at its center. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that some of these supermassive black holes may even be too big for ...

Space itself is scary enough—dark, vast, cold and empty—but galaxies have all manner of terrifying beasts lurking inside. Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, ...