But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" out excess mass at nearly a third of the speed of light.

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...

Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...

These explosions, called extreme nuclear transients, shine for longer than typical supernovas and get 30 to 1,000 times as bright.