By combining subtle distortions in spacetime with observations of unusually bright galactic centers, the study authors have ...

Gigantic black holes lurk at the center of virtually every galaxy, including ours, but we've lacked a precise picture of what ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...

Inside an incredibly bright cluster of galaxies, a long-dormant supermassive black hole has come back to life. Radio images captured a one-million-light-year-long stream of star-forming particles and ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Scientists are observing the behavior of a supermassive black hole that is ...

Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond.

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to anchor our galaxy, explaining both the blistering speeds of stars near the ...

But now a new study published in Nature suggests a solution to the Little Red Dots mystery. Scientists think young ...

In 2023, the detection of an unusually high-energy neutrino puzzled scientists, as no known cosmic source could explain its ...

New models explain how small black holes in the early universe beat the clock and grew into massive objects within millions ...

In 2023, a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into Earth with such a high amount of energy that it should have been ...

A black hole at the centre of a galaxy 665 million light years away is continuing to emit a jet of matter six years after ...