A nearby active galaxy called VV 340a offers a dramatic look at how a supermassive black hole can reshape its entire host.

"It's like watching a cosmic volcano erupt again after ages of calm — except this one is big enough to carve out structures ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered its clearest view yet of a supermassive black hole's immediate surroundings, ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have discovered "signs of a ‘hot spot’ ...

Astronomers at W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea discovered “the clearest evidence yet that a supermassive black hole can ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured infrared light from a black hole and gave scientists unprecedented insights into the ...

New research presented at an astronomy meeting shows that active black holes are more common in dwarf galaxies than earlier studies suggested, based on a large survey of nearby galaxies.

A nearby galaxy is launching an enormous stream of super-heated gas, driven by a precessing jet from its central black hole., ...

Deep in the cosmos, about a billion light-years away, a monster with a gargantuan appetite has woken up. For roughly 100 ...