While investigating a mysterious radiation signal unlike any seen before, astronomers may have uncovered a rare pair of ...

Just on the outskirts of a supermassive black hole roughly 4 million times more massive than the sun, a pair of stars locked ...

While investigating a mysterious radiation signal unlike any seen before, astronomers may have uncovered a rare pair of binary supermassive black holes with a truly monstrous appetite. When you ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Supermassive black holes — cosmic titans with masses of 100,000 to billions of times the mass of ...

Supermassive black holes — cosmic titans with masses of 100,000 to billions of times the mass of the sun — are among the universe's most fearsome phenomena. These celestial behemoths can ...

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center ...

At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. It is roughly 27,000 light years from ...

New Hubble Space Telescope images of a black hole-powered quasar reveal 'weird' structures and gigantic jets of energy that scientists are just beginning to explain.

Scientists believe that at the heart of all large galaxies lurk supermassive black holes, cosmic titans with masses equivalent to that of millions or even billions of suns. Yet some black holes ...