The observation of titanic jets emerging from the supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy could be a grim ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

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

could our galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) also blow its top? And if so, what would this mean for life in the Milky Way? While larger jets have been observed in the past ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...

Astronomers have uncovered compelling evidence of the closest supermassive black hole outside of our own Milky Way galaxy. Nestled within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of our nearest galactic ...

While large galaxies host central supermassive black holes (SMBH ... high speeds after an encounter with the Milky Way’s own central black hole, Sagittarius A*. (Such speedy stars were one ...