An ultramassive black hole so huge it could swallow 30 billion suns has emerged from the cosmic background, revealed not by ...

What could force a supermassive black hole (SMBH) out of its host galaxy? They can have hundreds of millions, even billions ...

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

When a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy suddenly brightened in X-rays, astronomers watched it do something they had ...

A sudden black hole flare unleashed stunning, near light speed winds that echo the Sun’s most powerful eruptions.

Astronomers have witnessed a dramatic and extremely fast outburst from a supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 ...

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is home to multiple wonders. There is our biggest star, VY Canis Majoris, the column-like structures known as the Pillars of Creation, and, in the middle of it all, a ...

A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...

Record-breaking ultrafast outflow (UFO) winds from a supermassive black hole flung matter across the universe close to the speed of light.

The record-setting cosmic outburst was actually a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful class of cosmic explosions.

A proposed interstellar mission envisions sending a gram-scale nanocraft, propelled by a laser-driven lightsail to a nearby black hole, achieving approximately one-third the speed of light. Upon ...

Black holes can get energy boosts by ‘snacking’, although their dish of choice is rather different from our own. Analysis suggests that the most luminous burst of light ever detected from a black hole ...