Supermassive black holes can be very bright if they are actively eating, usually a brightness that stays there for a very ...

It's nicknamed Jetty McJetface.

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...

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

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

Somewhere in the universe, enormous black holes are circling each other so slowly that ...

Astronomers have found a potential new piece of the ongoing puzzle over “little red dots” (LRDs). It’s a distant smudge in ...

Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns. These bursts of light and energy can come from things like tangled-up ...

Some galaxies eject powerful streams of charged particles—jets—from their centers into space. The prominent jet of Messier 87 ...

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew so big in such a short timescale." When you purchase through links on our ...

At the center of our galaxy, something incredibly heavy is pulling the strings. Stars ...