At the heart of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, lurks a supermassive black hole. These cosmic giants ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 ...

Black holes may not be as life-destroying as we thought. A surprising study reveals that the powerful radiation from active ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can ...

Despite the bounce and subsequent expansion, nothing can leave the event horizon, so it expands into a new region of ...

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

The observation of titanic jets emerging from the supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy could be a grim ...

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three ...

But recently astronomers have used data collected by the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft to detect three previously unknown black holes and, it turns out, are the closest known to Earth.