Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

Astronomers are trying to understand a mysterious cosmic explosion that the Einstein Probe spacecraft spotted in April last year.

A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

By revealing a massive radio jet in the early universe, J1601+3102 offers a rare snapshot of early quasar activity.

A recent study offers a new explanation for the rapid growth of supermassive black holes in the early universe, proposing ...

Supermassive black holes can fuel their own growth by cooling and recycling gas, creating a continuous cycle of feeding and ...

Researchers have discovered the largest black hole plasma jets ever in a galaxy almost 7 billion light years away from Earth.