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

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Astronomers have taken a crucial step in showing that the most massive black holes in the universe can create their own meals ...

The thick colored dots represent the observed spins of black holes – blue shows rotation in the same direction as the accretion disk, gray shows little or no rotation, and red shows rotation in ...

Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...

Supermassive black holes can fuel their own growth by cooling and recycling gas, creating a continuous cycle of feeding and ...

Large galaxies that exist today almost all seem to have a supermassive black hole at their centers, he notes. A subsample of little red dots that researchers examined in more detail showed light ...

"There's a substantial amount of work being done to try to determine the nature of these little red dots and whether their light is dominated by accreting black holes." A significant contributing ...

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton ... surrounded by flecks of light. Dark purple or blue areas represent filaments of hot gas observed by Chandra, launched in ...

The red coloration of these surprisingly bright early galaxies is thought to come from gas and dust in a flattened cloud of matter around supermassive black holes called an accretion disk.