An international team of astronomers has discovered the first tidal disruption event (TDE) producing bright radio emission ...

The data suggest that the black hole launched powerful outflows months after the star’s destruction, showing that black holes ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...

Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black ...

When galaxies collide, it's not a gentle affair, but it does take millions of years. Over this time, the two massive star ...

Artist’s interpretation of two massive black holes (MBHs) within a galaxy. A tidal disruption event unfolds around the MBH ...

Astronomers have achieved the first radio image of a supermassive black hole pair, using the retired Russian RadioAstron ...

For 50 years, astronomers have been searching for evidence of winds emanating from the black hole Sagittarius A*. Now, they ...

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, which swirls inward until it eventually vanishes into a gravitational ...

After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of ...

Most supermassive black holes don’t just swallow up matter, they eject it, sometimes in spectacular jets of super heated ...

Astronomers from the University of Southampton made the unexpected discovery while examining an infant galaxy 12 billion ...