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 November, scientists arrived at the South Pole in planes outfitted with skis to pull off a construction project seven years in the making.

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...

Hulk: Smash Everything #3 pits the Jade Giant against a supermassive black hole. Finally, an opponent with even more gravity ...

Using the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea, an international collaboration of astronomers led by scientists at Waseda University and Tohoku University of Japan have discovered an extraordinary quasar in ...

During the survey, researchers identified a promising 8.19-millisecond pulsar (MSP) candidate located close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

Scientists have dived deeper into the "eye of the storm" swirling around supermassive black holes than ever before. This unprecedented investigation of the turbulent and violent c ...

Scientists have discovered that active supermassive black holes don't just kill their home galaxies, but can also eradicate ...

A ‘runaway’ black hole ejected from its host galaxy is barrelling across space — and leaving behind a wake of newborn stars.

The investigation could solve the mystery of how supermassive black holes grew so large in the early universe.

An exotic type of dark matter could explain some of the characteristics of our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, but ...

Observations of a distant quasar reveal that supermassive black holes may suppress star formation across intergalactic distances.