The event released a tremendous amount of energy, around 400 billion times that of the Sun, exceeding even the most powerful known supernovae.

The black hole is located in galaxy QSO1, seemingly without any stars around it, which defies the long-held idea that black holes are formed by dying stars.

In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion light-years away. The enormous masses and extreme spins of the black holes ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Scientists are observing the most energetic flare ever seen emanating from a supermassive black hole, apparently caused when this celestial beast shredded and swallowed a ...

This mosaic of dusty, swirling disks shows a sample of images captured from the International Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, as part of an unprecedented survey of 44 young massive ...