A nearby active galaxy called VV 340a offers a dramatic look at how a supermassive black hole can reshape its entire host.

"It's like watching a cosmic volcano erupt again after ages of calm — except this one is big enough to carve out structures ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered its clearest view yet of a supermassive black hole's immediate surroundings, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope snapped its sharpest image of the area around a black hole, solving a long-standing galactic ...

One of the most vivid portraits of "reborn" black hole activity—likened to the eruption of a "cosmic volcano" spreading ...

A supermassive black hole is reawakening inside a distant galaxy cluster—and after almost 100 million years of slumber, ...

Puzzling red spots in photos from the James Webb Space Telescope are probably young supermassive black holes obscured by ...

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole, located 53 million light-years away in the ...

It's 20 million times the mass of the Sun and it's moving at supersonic speeds. Find out how JWST finally proved this rogue ...

What we know of the birth of a black hole has traditionally aligned with our perception of black holes themselves: dark, ...

Black holes don’t just bend space and time. They also expose where our understanding of reality begins to break.  In this ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured infrared light from a black hole and gave scientists unprecedented insights into the object's structure.