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

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 ...

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

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

Observations from the ALMA telescope array uncovered evidence of giant space tornadoes at the core of our galaxy.

Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

A new discovery has given scientists a powerful way to find hidden black holes across the universe. An international team of ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has given us a view of the earliest moments of galaxy formation in the universe. It's also ...

Deep in the galaxy’s central molecular zone (CMZ), surrounding the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, clouds ...

A high school student in New York has stumbled onto a massive discovery — a cosmic light echo possibly spanning twice the ...

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