Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a large black hole inside the neighbouring ...

The strange behavior of hypervelocity stars suggests a nearby dwarf galaxy must contain a supermassive black hole. If so, a ...

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...

The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

The Milky Way can be seen as something of a bully, having devoured many smaller galaxies to achieve its vast mass, and ...

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.