It's nicknamed Jetty McJetface.

A STAR-DESTROYING black hole is releasing a jet that’s so high-energy it’s one of the “brightest things ever detected in the ...

A giant star that seems to have wandered too close to an even bigger black hole may have been shredded and devoured in a cosmic meal that produced the most powerful flare of its kind ever seen. At ...

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

Runaway black holes have moved from theoretical oddity to observed reality, and the picture they paint is as unsettling as it is awe inspiring. Instead of sitting quietly at galactic centers, some of ...

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

Scientists observe a supermassive black hole producing an unprecedented, years-long jet after destroying a star, creating one ...

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...

LOS ANGELES — Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed "Superman," the flare originated 10 billion light-years from Earth, ...

In a fresh discovery that's leaving astronomers awestruck, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has confirmed the existence of a "runaway" supermassive black hole roughly 20 million times the mass of ...

The supermassive black holes thought to lurk at the heart of most galaxies attained their enormous sizes by eating stars, a new study suggests. Some theories hold that these galactic black holes — ...

Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than theoretical predictions. Reading time 2 minutes All galaxies have a supermassive ...