A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also stimulate their formation or the formation of pretty exotic dusty objects, most ...

Astronomers watched as a black hole whipped up cosmic winds that shot material into space at 37,280 miles per second (60,000 ...

New data confirm that the titanic collisions of galaxies ignite the most powerful active galactic nuclei.Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are phases in ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

Black holes, born from dying stars, are cosmic giants that grow by consuming matter and merging with others. While invisible ...

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBH), if they exist, have between about 100 and 1,000 solar masses, placing them in between ...

Indian astronomers have discovered a cluster of quasars that spout jets of matter that extend out for 7.2 million light-years — many times bigger than our own galaxy. The mind-bending study was ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ground-based observations at this wavelength." Astronomers have used the ...

"The sizes of these radio jets are not comparable to our solar system or even our galaxy." Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of ...

Learn how researchers used Einstein’s theory of general relativity to create the most accurate simulations to date.