"Many supermassive black holes may lie concealed within dusty regions of the early universe, undetected," said astronomer Takafumi Tsukui.

A group of astronomers first noticed light bending around this ultramassive black hole at the center of Abell 1201 in 2003. However, it wasn’t until 2017, when astronomers discovered a second ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3. It's mass is "33 times that of our Sun," according to the European Southern ...

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.

Study co-author Dr. Takafumi Tsukui, from ANU, said the discovery had significant implications for our understanding of black holes in the early universe. "The findings help us understand how ...

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever seen before.

The black hole at the heart of galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, was quiet for decades as it ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching colossal jets of energy, something once thought possible only in elliptical ...

Different molecules are impacted by the forces around a black hole in different ways and they can be used as tracers to track different mechanisms. The newly discovered filaments are made of silicon ...

Astronomers are investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behavior unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to ...