The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe.

Collaboration has achieved the highest-resolution Earth-based observations to date, detecting light at 345 GHz from the ...

Using the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have detected the largest black hole jet ever seen in the early universe. It's twice as long as the Milky Way.

Twin jets erupt from a supermassive black hole in Draco, offering new insights into black hole activity and evolution.

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

New research shows black holes can trigger gas cooling, creating fuel for their own feeding. This process keeps them growing ...

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...

Scientists have discovered an enormous radio galaxy 32 times the size of the Milky Way. They nicknamed it "Inkathazo," or ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A group of researchers recently simulated the event horizon of a man-made black hole in ...

From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.