Supermassive black holes are behemoths that weigh in at several million to billion times the mass of our own sun. Like their ...

This is really interesting. Supermassive black holes are usually found sitting in the centers of galaxies – the gravitational hub around which the entire kit and kaboodle revolves. AT2024tvd's host ...

The findings, published in The Astrophysical Journal, reveal evidence of highly ionized neon gas, which could be a telltale sign of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), the bright, compact central ...

Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place.

Astronomers have detected a rare black hole outside a galaxy’s core devouring a star in the first known offset tidal ...

The spiral galaxy known as Messier 81 (M81) has a rosy tint in this June 1, 2007, composite image that incorporates data from ...

Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found "Space Jaws." Lurking 600 million ...

This strongly suggests the presence of an AGN (active galactic nucleus) that has been elusive ... create a bright environment like our Milky Way galaxy. Most large and spiral-shaped galaxies ...