Observations from the ALMA telescope array uncovered evidence of giant space tornadoes at the core of our galaxy.

"Many supermassive black holes may lie concealed within dusty regions of the early universe, undetected," said astronomer Takafumi Tsukui.

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

In the dense heart of the Milky Way, not only does a supermassive black hole reign, but a cloud of stellar-mass black holes ...

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

In a study published March 11 in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, two researchers applied quantum mechanics to ...

Could black holes, which are known as the most destructive forces in the universe, create conditions on nearby planets where ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

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

However, in the entire history of astronomy, we have found just a bare handful of candidate sky objects that might—maybe—prove to be the elusive middle-sized black holes scientists would love ...

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

These detections have not relied on energy being emitted from black hole environments ... and wrote an article about the discoveries in an “Astronomy” magazine article last spring.