A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched ...

Galaxy mergers are not uncommon throughout the Universe; in fact, they're thought to be one of the major mechanisms whereby ...

Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a ...

In a patch of sky about 1. 2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three galaxies caught in ...

Now, an international team of astronomers claim to have made a baffling discovery with the help of NASA’s James Webb Space ...

Using the ALMA telescope in Chile, an international research team examined seven pairs of merging galaxies to come to the ...

In a fresh discovery that's leaving astronomers awestruck, the James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the existence of a 'runaway' supermassive black hole.

A black hole the mass of at least ten million suns is tearing through space, fast enough to escape its home galaxy. As it goes, it plows into thin galactic gas, piling it up into a luminous shock ...

Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns. These bursts of light and energy can come from things like tangled-up ...

Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, is surrounded by orbiting stars thanks to its mammoth gravitational pull. For decades, astronomers have been ...

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up everything that comes their way, but astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter ...

Catching two supermassive black holes sharing close quarters isn’t that unusual. But spotting three jockeying for position is quite bizarre. In fact, astronomers rarely witness such a triplet. But now ...