The most massive black hole that we are currently aware of is Phoenix A, which sits at the heart of the Phoenix cluster, one of the heftiest clusters ever discovered. Located 5.8 billion light ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled the closest-ever look at a monster black hole devouring its cosmic surroundings. This supermassive black hole, at the heart of a quasar known as 3C 273 ...

Illustration of material swirling around a black hole highlights the corona, that shines brightly in X-ray light. (NASA/Caltech-IPAC/Robert Hurt) Streaming from the polar regions of the black hole are ...

38.5 x 50.5 in. (97.8 x 128.3 cm.) ...

Scientists have suggested at least some of the objects could be small orbiting galaxies on the precipice of falling into the central black hole, which is what's powering the quasar. All of the ...

Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ventures too close—be it star, planet, or spacecraft—will be stretched and ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks. In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study supermassive ...

Looking in older materials provides the best odds, simply because such things have been around for ages and have had more opportunity for a black hole impact. It's also much cheaper to look for ...

However, as we have just discovered, there is a surprising link between what goes on near the black hole and the shape of the entire galaxy that surrounds it. Our results are published in Nature ...

During a routine investigation involving robot manipulation, an insurance agent at a robotics company makes a discovery that has profound consequences for the human race.