Using the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have detected the largest black hole jet ever seen in the early universe. It's ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

According to NASA, "there are hundreds of them"—massive black holes roaming space. It is now emerging and reshaping the ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...

A team of scientists including the University of Toronto's Bart Ripperda and Braden Gail - assistant professor and graduate student, respectively, at ...

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up, well, everything. They're icons of destruction, ruthless voids, ambivalent abysses ...

The image of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of massive elliptical galaxy M87, changed the world. It was the ...

Artist's impression of a supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust in four different wavelengths of light. Visible ...

Dunlap department of astronomy and astrophysics in the Faculty of Arts & Science – have made the first-ever detection of a mid-infrared (mid-IR) flare from the supermassive black hole at the centre of ...