Sarah Pappert is a Ph.D. candidate in astrophysics at the TUM School of Natural Sciences and conducts research at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial…

Scientists have proposed a new method for finding tightly bound supermassive black hole pairs by searching for stars that flash repeatedly as their light is ma…

Giant black holes may be the universe’s best planet makers Planets might exist in the least likely place you’d imagine—around the outskirts of supermassive bl…

Astronomers monitoring a nearby active galaxy for six years have watched its supermassive black hole dramatically wake up, brightening by a factor of 10 across…

Hubble’s image shows Messier 88’s bright core and star-forming regions, but its 250 km/s plunge through the Virgo Cluster is stripping its star-forming gas, li…

Supermassive black holes are the largest known black holes in the universe, sitting at the center of most large galaxies. They are sometimes described as cosmi…

NASA’s Hubble captures gorgeous new photo of a spiral galaxy as it wanders through the Virgo Cluster Messier 88 is an active galaxy with a central supermassiv…