Long before researchers knew about quasars or black holes, astronomers were photographing what is now known as Quasar OJ287.

An international team of astronomers has discovered the first tidal disruption event (TDE) producing bright radio emission ...

After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a ...

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...

Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black ...

Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, which swirls inward until it eventually vanishes into a gravitational ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...

When galaxies collide, it's not a gentle affair, but it does take millions of years. Over this time, the two massive star ...

Astronomers from the University of Southampton made the unexpected discovery while examining an infant galaxy 12 billion ...