Supermassive black holes lurk at the centers of massive galaxies, including our own Milky Way. Puzzlingly, supermassive black ...

Researchers address some of the questions surrounding these massive and enigmatic features of the universe by using new, high-powered simulations. At the center of galaxies, like our own Milky Way, ...

Supermassive black holes may tear apart and devour their disk of surrounding dust and gas at a shocking speed, perhaps explaining the behavior of a mysterious class of rapidly brightening quasar.

Plenty of groups have been theorizing about primordial black holes (PBHs) recently. That is in part because of their candidacy as a potential source of dark matter. But, if they existed, they also had ...

Astronomers observed ancient quasars that appear to be surprisingly alone in the early universe. The findings challenge physicists' understanding of how such luminous objects could have formed so ...

Stephanie LaMassa did a double take. She was staring at two images on her computer screen, both of the same object — except they looked nothing alike. The first image, captured in 2000 with the Sloan ...

The galactic cores, containing huge black holes, could help explain how the universe developed into the complex cosmos it is today. Reading time 2 minutes A team of astronomers has spotted the most ...

Less than a billion years after the Big Bang, two supermassive black holes were already gorging on gas inside the same ...

This image, taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, shows an ancient quasar (circled in red) with fewer than expected neighboring galaxies (bright blobs), challenging physicists’ understanding of ...