Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a large black hole inside the neighbouring ...

The Enigmatic Giants of the Universe Black holes, those mysterious entities lurking in the vastness of space, have always captivated the imagination of astronomers and poets alike. Their very ...

"Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive radio jet does not have an extreme black hole mass compared to other quasars." Astronomers have detected the largest black hole-launched jet ever ...

One probably lurks at the center of every large galaxy. But it is impossible for scientists to count every single supermassive black hole. Instead, they need to take surveys of nearby galaxies to ...

One possible answer is inside-out growth: As star formation within a galaxy expands outward from the nucleus, less gas is being deposited by supernovas near the accreting black hole, and it ...

"The relative size scales of a supermassive black hole to its host galaxy is like comparing a pea to the Earth," study team leader Peter Boorman, a researcher at the California Institute of ...

The centers of galaxy clusters contain the universe’s most massive galaxies, which, in turn, contains gigantic black holes ranging in mass from millions to tens of billions of times that of the ...

It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which means we have a front row seat to small-scale black hole behavior that would be too faint to see were it taking place in another galaxy.

Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick Astronomers have detected the largest black hole-launched jet ever seen in the early universe. The twin-lobed jet that existed when the universe was just 1.2 ...