Black holes may appear to be shaped like a doughnut, but the truth is more complicated than that, explain our readers ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.

JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered the largest and most extended stream of ...

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...

A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...