When a black hole spins rapidly, it drags the space around it, akin to a whirlpool in water. This phenomenon is called ...

Astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea discovered clear evidence that a supermassive black hole can reshape a ...

For the first time, a shockwave propagating inside the jet of a celestial object presumed to be a pair of orbiting ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

New paper led by UC Santa Cruz undergraduate suggests that long-dormant galaxies deemed to be dead may actually be stunted by ...

A recent study provides answers to three seemingly disparate yet pressing cosmic dawn puzzles. Specifically, the authors show ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered the largest and most extended stream of ...

University of California, Irvine astronomers have announced the discovery of the largest-known stream of super-heated ...

A recent study led by Colgate Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Cosmin Ilie, in collaboration with Jillian Paulin ...

A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have ...

A wobbling jet from a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy is blasting gas out at a rate high enough to suppress star formation.