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

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago ...

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

However, in the entire history of astronomy, we have found just a bare ... so fast that it heats up and starts to glow, and ...

This suggests that O-type stars experience black hole grinding. There are plenty of the smaller B-type stars in the region, ...

Researchers traced the trajectories of super speedy stars all the way back to their sources—and they discovered strong evidence of a previously unknown supermassive black hole just outside our ...

This dwarf galaxy, a satellite of our galaxy, may have its own supermassive black hole. Evidence for this hidden cosmic titan was delivered via hypervelocity stars at the edge of the Milky Way ...

New research led by W. M. Keck Observatory Instrument Scientist and astronomer Grant Hill has confirmed what scientists have long suspected—WR 104 comprises two massive stars: a Wolf-Rayet star and an ...

Astronomers refer to these as "hypervelocity" stars. "It is astounding to realize that we have another supermassive black hole just down the block, cosmically speaking," said Jesse Han of the ...