An infinity symbol–shaped galaxy hosts an active supermassive black hole. The growing giant may have come from the aftermath of a galactic smashup.

After years of follow-up study, an international research team led by the University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier Center say they can now confirm CAPERS-LRD-z9 contains the oldest supermassive ...

Theoretically, there's no limit to how massive a black hole could grow. In practical terms, other constraints, such as the ...

Dark matter could gather at the heart of Jupiter-sized worlds, eventually creating a black hole that eats its way out of its ...

A highly speculative new theory touches on three of the hottest topics in astronomy and the connections between them.

Is Jupiter secretly planning to vanish? Recent research implies that given the proper cosmic conditions, a gas giant would ...

Artist’s illustration of a tidal disruption event which starts with a normal black hole (1), a star orbiting the black hole (2), the black hole starting to consume the star (3), the star’s remnants (4 ...

We observed the black hole multiple times throughout 2023 and 2024, and we noticed changes in every observation. We saw something different each time, which is really remarkable. ” ...

An artist’s illustration depicts the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*. It’s surrounded by a swirling accretion disk of hot gas and dust ...

Orbiting together with Sgr A* in their own binary pair, the smaller black hole would have acted rather like a gravitational goalkeeper, kicking away any stars approaching the galactic center.

Black holes, the enigmatic remnants of collapsed massive stars or the centres of galaxies, drive powerful accretion processes that influence their surroundings and may even launch relativistic jets.