An international collaboration of astrophysicists that includes researchers from Yale has created and tested a detection ...
Astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole doing something that sounds like science fiction: racing through space at ...
Webb telescope data confirm a supermassive black hole fleeing its galaxy, carving a 200,000 light-year wake of new stars.
Scientists have named two systems of colliding supermassive black holes after Lord of the Rings locations, Gondor and Rohan.
Some evidence of supermassive black holes influencing the gas around them has previously been seen in X-ray images. However, ...
XRISM measurements map gas velocities in the Perseus and Virgo clusters, separating black hole-driven turbulence from merger-driven motion using high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy.
A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on ...
What if the Milky Way’s central “black hole” isn’t a black hole at all? A new model proposes that an ultra-dense dark matter core could mimic its gravitational pull.
Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...