One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...

For the first time, scientists have the calculations and simulations to explain mysterious flashes from the galaxy OJ 287.

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

The sounds aren't just a scientific curiosity, though. The tenuous gas and plasma that drifts between the galaxies in galaxy ...

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...

It is no secret that at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, lies a supermassive black hole better known as Sagittarius A ...

For the first time, scientists have the calculations and simulations to explain mysterious flashes from the galaxy OJ 287.

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics have discovered that radiation and jets from supermassive black holes ...

A newly formed black hole, GW190412, was captured fleeing at 180,000 km/h; scientists track its entire cosmic trajectory for the first time.

AGN are bright centres of galaxies powered by matter falling into supermassive black holes, which are millions of times more ...