Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has ...

Supermassive black holes can fuel their own growth by cooling and recycling gas, creating a continuous cycle of feeding and outbursts. The central regions of galaxy clusters host the universe’s ...

A closed-loop system aims to empower, not replace, professors in subjects including literature and physics. And it appears to be improving student outcomes too.

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up, well, everything. They're icons of destruction, ruthless voids, ambivalent abysses ...

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

Increasing, or at least sustaining, genetic diversity is crucial as it makes a species more adept at adapting to changing ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

Researchers have discovered the largest black hole plasma jets ever in a galaxy almost 7 billion light years away from Earth.

Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...