As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

A Yale University-led team of scientists say they’ve made a groundbreaking discovery: the possible birth of a supermassive ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* has been sonified by SYSTEM Sounds. Credit: ...

Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...

“Third, as an unexpected bonus, it turns out that both galaxy nuclei also have an active supermassive black hole. So, this ...

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...