Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

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

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

The team used two of the most powerful supercomputers, capable of performing a quintillion operations per second.

With masses that dwarf anything in the stellar realm, supermassive black holes are central to galaxy evolution. This analysis compares them to other cosmic giants—like dark matter halos and galactic ...

On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...