Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive ...

Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering ...

Astronomers confirm a wandering black hole in our galaxy’s Sagittarius region using Hubble and Gaia microlensing data.

Scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole that appears to be "waking up" after being inactive for decades. The black hole at the heart of SDSS1335+0728—a distant galaxy 300 million ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Black holes are a dime a dozen in the cosmos. These destructive and terrifying cosmic ...

Scientists have pictured Sgr A*, the gargantuan black hole that lives at the centre of our Milky Way Galaxy. From the data they've gathered, the researchers can produce simulations of what it ...

This was true of the black hole at the heart of SDSS1335+0728, a distant and unremarkable galaxy 300 million light ... enough to detect the fainter X-ray background light between the bursts.

While the mechanism that fuels black holes is pretty well understood, astrophysicists don't know exactly why these galaxy-powering bodies emit these bright, energetic flares. According to Yusef ...