New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

New research reveals how quiet galactic engines can help shape entire galaxies.

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...

There's no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new study asks whether a ...

Supermassive black hole binaries form naturally when galaxies merge, but scientists have only confidently observed a very few of these systems that are widely separated. Black hole binaries that ...

In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.

Researchers at Oxford University and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) are ...

Imagine a jet of energy so powerful that it makes even Star Wars’ Death Star look tiny. That’s reportedly what astronomers ...

For a single supermassive black hole, extremely strong lensing occurs only when a star lies almost exactly along the line of ...

Astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole doing something that sounds like science fiction: racing through space at ...

A black hole at the centre of a galaxy 665 million light years away is continuing to emit a jet of matter six years after ...

At the center of our galaxy, something incredibly heavy is pulling the strings. Stars ...