A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched ...

Scientists are developing new methods to turn black hole images into time-resolved 3D movies, revealing how plasma, jets, and gravity behave near event horizons ...

This ancient dormant black hole didn’t just grow quickly—it may have shaped the galaxies around it. Representing 40% of its ...

Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a ...

Astronomers have witnessed a dramatic and never-before-seen event near a supermassive black hole: an intense X-ray flare that ...

It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

Three merging galaxies host three active black holes, offering rare insight into galaxy and black hole growth.

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

This suggests that black hole growth during mergers is inefficient and uneven. Rather than steadily consuming gas, black ...

New observations reveal that the relationship between ultraviolet and X-ray light in quasars has changed over billions of ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

Taking a look back over the last twelve months, here are several of the biggest science stories in physics this year, as well ...