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

"Many supermassive black holes may lie concealed within dusty regions of the early universe, undetected," said astronomer ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago ...

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

Primordial black holes are the earliest black holes thought to exist, and they vanished almost as fast as they came into ...

Magnetic fields twist around the black hole as it rotates to store energy – kind of like when you pull and twist a rubber band. When you release the rubber band, it snaps forward. Similarly, the ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

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

NASA has confirmed the presence of a supermassive black hole at the centre of the elliptical galaxy M87. Estimated to be 2.6 ...

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