Asupermassive black hole may have been caught in the act of fleeing its galaxy, carving a 200,000-light-year trail of newborn stars behind it. The observation provides some of the strongest evidence ...

Broad-band spectra from the XMM–Newton pn camera for orbits 2659 (black), 2661 (red), 2663 (green), and 2664 (blue) plotted as a ratio to that of orbit 2652, illustrating strong soft X-ray absorption ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just confirmed a cosmic fugitive: the first known supermassive black hole racing through intergalactic space at roughly 2.2 million miles per hour, fast enough to ...

Researchers believe the 'ultramassive' black hole is big enough to be the largest of its kind ever detected. Black holes are regions of space where the pull of gravity is so intense that even light ...

A new University of Leicester study shows how the uncontrolled growth of a distant Supermassive Black Hole (SMBH) is revealed by the ejection of excess matter as a high velocity wind. Published in ...