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

Astronomers overwhelmingly agree a supermassive black hole anchors the Milky Way. But a new theoretical analysis explores a far more speculative possibility: not a black hole, but a dense knot of dark ...

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Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond. It was moving at around 68 kilometres per second, just over double Earth&rsquo ...

Some evidence of supermassive black holes influencing the gas around them has previously been seen in X-ray images. However, ...

What: New analyses using early observations from the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission examine how galaxy mergers trigger active galactic nuclei (AGN), luminou ...

At the heart of nearly every galaxy lurks a cosmic giant: a supermassive black hole. These mysterious objects, millions to billions of times more massive than our Sun, exert such powerful gravity that ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to look back in time and study galaxies that existed shortly after the Big ...

Astronomers tracked a star that slowly faded instead of exploding. The quiet disappearance may reveal a hidden way black holes are born.

It's nicknamed Jetty McJetface.

"It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most massive black holes in the universe." ...