Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

A flash of extraordinary intensity suddenly illuminated the cosmos in 2018, capturing the attention of astronomers with its ...

U sing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing supermassive black hole in the infant universe. Existing just 570 million years after ...

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

Students in a joint UT Austin and UTSA astronomy course say they have zeroed in on an unexpectedly massive black hole parked ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.