The nearby dwarf galaxy Segue 1 is exceptionally faint for its mass, which has puzzled astronomers almost since its discovery. A new paper proposes this could be because it hosts a ridiculously ...

Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, such as explosive supernovae or ridiculously ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

A team of astronomers has discovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe, surrounding ...

Muse frontman Matt Bellamy's guitar company, Manson Guitar Works, has launched a new pedal themed around the band's song "Supermassive Black Hole."The Manson Supermassive Black Fuzz is inspired by the ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

Black holes have always been considered mysteries in the world of research, with their composition, orbit and purpose largely ...