An infinity symbol–shaped galaxy hosts an active supermassive black hole. The growing giant may have come from the aftermath of a galactic smashup.

“The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,” they and their colleagues said in a study soon to be published in the Astrophysical Journal ...

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The object, named NGC 6099 HLX-1, first appeared in 2009. Chandra caught the bright X-ray flash near the galaxy’s outskirts.

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A rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant galaxy, and it's all ...

A study analyzing JWST observations of the early universe has uncovered an intriguing mystery: most galaxies appear to be ...

Supermassive black holes represent one of the biggest head-scratchers in the Universe. These behemoths weighing millions to ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...

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Astronomers confirmed the first case of a star surviving a black hole encounter, challenging long-held beliefs about tidal disruption events.