Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the ...

Either way, to merge, they must get close, which means losing a lot of orbital energy. The first step in stealing energy from the system is through the black holes' interaction with their environment.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected two galaxies and their supermassive central black holes caught in a merging dance when the universe was only 740 million years old. This makes th ...

When galaxies merge, the supermassive black holes that sit in their centers must eventually merge, too, forming an even more gargantuan black hole. For decades, though, a question has vexed ...

New observations with the James Webb Space Telescope reveal the most distant pair of merging black holes ever spotted. The discovery further challenges leading theories of cosmology. When you ...

Thanks to the POSYDON code's recent major advancements in simulating binary-star populations, a team of scientists predicted the existence of merging massive, 30 solar mass black hole binaries in ...

Two supermassive black holes have been spotted feasting on cosmic materials as two galaxies in distant space merge — and are the closest to colliding black holes astronomers have ever observed.

All massive galaxies are believed to host supermassive black holes millions or billions of times the mass of the Sun. When galaxies merge — which we know they do, and frequently — it seems a ...

This black hole, nestled in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, has been detected as ...

Galaxies have been merging into ever-bigger structures over the course of cosmic history. When galaxies merge, the supermassive black holes that sit in their centers must eventually merge, too, ...

According to astrophysicists, the two merging black holes at the origin of the signal were about 30 times the mass of the sun and located 1.5 billion light-years away. What mechanisms produce ...