Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic ...

A spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 exhibits powerful winds of material blowing from the supermassive black hole located at its ...

Primordial black holes are ancient mysteries, born in the universe’s earliest seconds. Unlike regular black holes, they weren ...

The discovery was made by precisely tracking the motion of 21 stars located on the outskirts of the Milky Way. These stars ...

People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has ...

The black hole examined by the team is no small cosmic object. It is more than a billion times the mass of our Sun. Despite ...

A massive spiral galaxy with a giant black hole is shooting huge energy jets, something scientists thought only elliptical ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

Come too close to one, and you’d get sucked in by its gravitational pull, or burn up from the intense heat surrounding it. But ironically, studying black holes and their jets can give ...