Astronomers have stumbled upon a pair of massive black holes in a distant galaxy that are triggering unusual bursts of light ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over how the supermassive black holes residing in the center of galaxies form. Now, ...

The infrared-light image captured by the JWST's MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) reveals the galaxy in a totally different way ...

Black holes don't have many identifying features. They come in one color (black) and one shape (spherical). The main ...

The Sombrero galaxy, located approximately 30 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, also hosts about 2,000 ...

New research reveals how supermassive black holes halt star formation, shedding light on galaxy evolution in the early ...

A quasar is an exceptionally bright and uncommon supermassive black hole found at the core of a galaxy. NASA researchers have ...

Astounding simulation shows magnetic fields create fluffy, not flat, accretion disks around supermassive black holes, ...

Black holes have captivated scientists for more than a century. How well do you know these supermassive wonders of the universe?

For the first time, NASA’s Swift Observatory has observed twin black holes disrupting a gas cloud in a galaxy’s center, ...

A brand-new James Webb Space Telescope image captures the steady, slow lifestyle of the distinctive Sombrero Galaxy.

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...