Here’s how it works. Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole that's shooting a giant energy beam directly at Earth. The cosmic juggernaut, which is about as massive as 700 million ...

The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass ...

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 ...

The unnamed British woman, 62, is said to have crashed head-on into a 35-year-old British man on the black slope of the Aiguille Rouge run after losing control of her skis and died following the ...

Many more supermassive black holes could be hiding in the universe than previously thought, according to a new study. Astronomers from the University of Southampton say that 35% of these galactic ...

An artist's conception of a black hole's corona, which are the pale swirls above and below the black hole. Credit: NASA / Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State Univ.) A strange black hole is making ...

An artist's concept of the supermassive black hole's mid-infrared flare. Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary research Sara Hashemi Daily Correspondent An artist’s concept of a white ...

Some 275 million light-years from the Milky Way lies a true cosmic mystery. There, in the heart of a galaxy named 1ES 1927+654, squats a supermassive black hole whose monkeyshines and hijinks have ...

An international research team, including Newcastle University’s Dr Adam Ingram, has detected rapidly fluctuating X-rays coming from the very edge of a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy. The ...

An undiscovered population of ancient black holes may be lurking throughout the universe. These bottomless cosmic pits would have a lot in common with more familiar black holes; in some cases ...

A supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust as seen in infrared light (top left), visible light (top right), and low- and high-energy X-rays (bottom left, right). Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...