a team of astronomers conducted an investigation with the Hubble Space Telescope and believed that they found an intermediate-mass black hole with a mass equivalent to around 8,200 suns.

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...

In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the ...

Hubble’s image of Markarian 231 reveals the nearest quasar to Earth, 600 million light-years away, with two supermassive black holes. Hubble’s image shows a spiral galaxy passing through NGC 1275, ...

A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

According to NASA, "there are hundreds of them"—massive black holes roaming space. It is now emerging and reshaping the ...

Quasars are distant galaxies with supermassive black holes, surrounded by brilliantly ... of the United States Naval Academy has used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to reveal surprising properties ...

Discover how researchers found a bizarre black hole feeding at an exceptional rate, challenging theories on black hole growth ...

The typical morphology of supermassive black holes. This artist’s impression depicts one surrounded by an accretion disc.

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

By observing the sig... NASA’s Hubble and Chandra telescopes have uncovered a bizarre sideways black hole in the galaxy NGC 5084, located 80 million light-years away. The black hole’s ...