This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

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Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

And sometimes material falling into a black hole can be rerouted into two giant jets, firing in opposite directions out into the universe. The Milky Way (bottom) compared to the larger galaxy ...

The behemoth, nicknamed J2345-0449, is a giant radio galaxy, or "super spiral" galaxy roughly three times the size of the Milky Way.Like our own spiral galaxy, it harbors a supermassive black hole ...

Astronomers have detected an erupting supermassive black hole producing some of the largest jets ever seen bursting from a galaxy with the same shape as our own. The galaxy in question also ...

Some three times the size of our Milky Way, the galaxy lies nearly a billion years away from us. The team found that 2MASX J23453268−0449256 sports a supermassive black hole larger than thought ...

A supermassive black hole erupts with a massive jet of energy that could wipe out life in its host galaxy. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy ...