The observation of titanic jets emerging from the supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy could be a grim ...

A massive spiral galaxy with a giant black hole is shooting huge energy jets, something scientists thought only elliptical ...

An international team of researchers used multi-wavelength observations of active galactic nuclei to study how black holes ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

In a study published March 11 in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, two researchers applied quantum mechanics to ...

Although black hole radiation can be catastrophic in some cases, it may assist life once oxygen has accumulated in the planet ...

A surprising new study from Dartmouth and the University of Exeter researchers shows that when the supermassive black holes at the center of most large galaxies—including the Milky Way—consume ...

Our understanding of black holes, time and the mysterious dark energy that dominates the universe could be revolutionized, as ...

Astronomers have discovered filaments of matter swirling tornado-like around the heart of the Milky Way, home to the ...

Aterrifying glimpse of a possible fate for our galaxy, the Milky Way, has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...