supermassive black holes

Quasars — shown here in an artist's illustration— are some of the brightest objects in the universe. The energy released by the quasar's supermassive black hole as it devours mass from its surroundings is widely considered to be the main driver in limiting the growth of massive galaxies. CREDIT Space Telescope Science Institute

JWST discovers pearl-like string of ancient galaxiesJuly 11, 2023

Artist's impression of a pulsar timing array.

Using galaxy-sized detector, astronomers find evidence of gravitational waves from supermassive black holesJune 30, 2023

MeerKAT image of the galactic center with color-coded position angles of the short, radial filaments.

Mysterious, Morse code-like ‘structures’ at center of Milky Way ‘stun’ astronomersJune 2, 2023

Artist’s impression of a quasar

Wild quasar emitting jets of light 100,000 billion times brighter than the SunMay 19, 2023

Image of 2 galaxies passing close to each other

Supermassive black hole lurking at edge of universe one of biggest ever detectedMay 16, 2023

hubble black hole

Hubble Space Telescope finds monstrous ‘missing link’ from dawn of the universeApril 15, 2022