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 ...

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 ...

Black holes are places where gravity is so powerful that nothing — not even light — can escape. Rather than being empty, black holes are chock full of matter that gets squeezed into a teensy space.

A new book demystifies black holes and explores what we still don’t know about them James Trefil and Shobita Satyapal The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of ...

Black holes are often considered terrors of the known universe. Supermassive black holes are regions of space where the pull of gravity is so intense that even light doesn't have enough energy to ...

Physicists have long believed that black holes explode at the end of their lives, and that such explosions happen—at most—only once every 100,000 years. But new research published in Physical Review ...