The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe.

Using the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have detected the largest black hole jet ever seen in the early universe. It's ...

Collaboration has achieved the highest-resolution Earth-based observations to date, detecting light at 345 GHz from the ...

Twin jets erupt from a supermassive black hole in Draco, offering new insights into black hole activity and evolution.

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A group of researchers recently simulated the event horizon of a man-made black hole in ...

From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.

Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...