There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...

Science Supermassive black holes intrigue astronomers with their ability to grow rapidly. A recent discovery reveals an ...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers has discovered lumps of particles within a black hole jet in ...

Astronomers have discovered a rapidly feeding black hole in a dwarf ... This low-mass supermassive black hole, spotted with ...

Astronomers have scoured decades-old data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory ... Meanwhile, astronomers continue to stress ...

Using NASA's space-based Chandra X-ray Observatory and the retired Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "danger zones" for planets that are forming around young stars. The team ...

This illustration shows a red, early-universe dwarf galaxy that hosts a rapidly feeding black hole at its center. Using data ...

The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

The Senate committed $72 million (which would represent full funding) toward Chandra’s “transformative discoveries ... captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the theoretical ...