The satellites the world relies on for navigation, communication and more get their bearings from distant black holes – but ...

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

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

Astronomers confirm ‘lite intermediate’ black holes, too large for ordinary stars, revealing clues about early stellar ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

A distant supermassive black hole has stunned astronomers by expelling matter at speeds nearing a third of light velocity after consuming material at an extreme rate. Designated PG1211+143, this ...

Two supermassive black holes carrying the faint light of the Big Bang, 11.6 billion and 11.7 billion light-years away, have ...

Astronomers have found a remarkably powerful jet shooting out from a black hole that formed just 3 billion years after the ...

Astronomers have discovered remarkably powerful X-ray jets emanating from two supermassive black holes that are so ancient ...

A cosmic leviathan stirs across the great, quiet expanse of the early universe. About 12 billion years old, a supermassive ...

Astronomers have uncovered ultra-powerful X-ray jets from two ancient supermassive black holes located over 11 billion light-years away. These colossal jets, spanning 300,000 light-years, are nearly ...

Supermassive black holes are found at the center of massive galaxies like our own Milky Way. Check out these 7 rare images of black holes shared by NASA ...