Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered the largest and most extended stream of ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

Astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea discovered clear evidence that a supermassive black hole can reshape a galaxy, the observatory announced on Jan. 8.

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

New paper led by UC Santa Cruz undergraduate suggests that long-dormant galaxies deemed to be dead may actually be stunted by ...

A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas that’s spawning newborn stars in its wake. Astronomers have long theorized about ...

A wobbling jet from a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy is blasting gas out at a rate high enough to suppress star formation.

QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.

The black hole is located in galaxy QSO1, seemingly without any stars around it, which defies the long-held idea that black ...

Three merging galaxies host three active black holes, offering rare insight into galaxy and black hole growth.