Scientists have named two systems of colliding supermassive black holes after Lord of the Rings locations, Gondor and Rohan.

Black holes in a pair of merging galaxies, known as UGC4211, are devouring gas and dust that is "being displaced by the ...

Scientists pursuing supermassive black holes suspect that these giants merge somewhere in the universe roughly once a year, but they don’t know how to find them. They think the evidence is hidden in ...

In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.

The NASA/JAXA X-ray spacecraft has allowed astronomers to dive into the metaphorical "eye of the storm" swirling around ...

An unusual tidal disruption event spotted by astronomers may be the result of an elusive intermediate mass black hole ripping ...

What: New analyses using early observations from the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission examine how galaxy mergers ...

Webb telescope data confirm a supermassive black hole fleeing its galaxy, carving a 200,000 light-year wake of new stars.

Scientists have named newly detected merging supermassive black holes after ’Lord of the Rings’ locations, using gravitational wave data and quasar observations to map their mergers.