A supermassive black hole dormant for decades has just awakened in a distant galaxy. This sudden activation provides a unique ...

No explosive birth needed: The discovery suggests this black hole likely formed through direct collapse, a quiet implosion ...

Mysterious dark matter makes up 85 percent of matter in the universe, and of the remaining 15 percent, scientists couldn’t ...

A recent astronomical discovery is revolutionizing our understanding of spiral galaxies. A giant spiral galaxy, located ...

A supermassive black hole that scientists have nicknamed "Ansky" is now awake after a long dormant period, emitting powerful ...

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short ...

What can astronomers learn from observing black holes that suddenly wake up? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

Black holes power some of the most energetic phenomena in the known universe, but could they ever power an advanced human ...

Black holes are fundamental to the structure of galaxies and critical in our understanding of gravity, space, and time. A ...

They have refined the estimate of the black hole mass, ruling out the possibility of it being a neutron star. It is thought ...

Scientists had thought that quasi-periodic eruptions kick off when an object such as a star or small black hole wanders a bit too close to a supermassive black hole and gets tangled up in the material ...