Supermassive black holes, often considered the universe's most extreme objects, are now seen as cosmic predators that can slow star growth in galaxies millions of light-years ...

As two supermassive black holes orbit toward each other, they send out gravitational waves that go from lower to higher ...

Webb telescope data confirm a supermassive black hole fleeing its galaxy, carving a 200,000 light-year wake of new stars.

Astronomers propose that instead of a black hole, another dark object could be dominating the Milky Way's center.

The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has been sharped using a machine learning technique called PRIMO. PRIMO is short ...

What if the Milky Way’s central “black hole” isn’t a black hole at all? A new model proposes that an ultra-dense dark matter core could mimic its gravitational pull.

Supermassive black holes rarely travel alone. Most large galaxies hide one at the center, and when galaxies collide, the two ...

Scientists believe that when galaxies collide and merge, the supermassive black holes at their centers should eventually pair ...

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.

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

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 ...

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s ...