It's one of astronomy's great mysteries: how did black holes get so big, so massive, so quickly. An answer to this cosmic ...

M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is remarkable, but they might be the only black holes we can ...

"It's like watching a cosmic volcano erupt again after ages of calm — except this one is big enough to carve out structures ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered its clearest view yet of a supermassive black hole's immediate surroundings, ...

A nearby active galaxy called VV 340a offers a dramatic look at how a supermassive black hole can reshape its entire host.

Learn about J1007+3540, a black hole that has recently come back to life and is described as a “cosmic volcano.” ...

"It's like watching a cosmic volcano erupt again after ages of calm — except this one is big enough to carve out structures ...

Alan and Amanda Holden try the scariest slide at the water park.

The James Webb Space Telescope snapped its sharpest image of the area around a black hole, solving a long-standing galactic ...

Puzzling red spots in photos from the James Webb Space Telescope are probably young supermassive black holes obscured by ...

AN ENORMOUS black hole has “erupted like a cosmic volcano” after a 100-million-year nap. The “dramatic scene” was captured at ...

Astronomers have identified a nearby galaxy whose central activity seems to be changing its long-term future. This galaxy, VV 340a, contains a superma.