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Supermassive black holes may create conditions akin to "cosmic intersections with failed traffic lights" that make collisions between smaller stellar-mass black holes inevitable.

A black hole may be punching through the disk of gas and dust surrounding a supermassive black hole, causing its giant neighbor to "hiccup."

Astronomers have discovered a quasar that remained hidden for over the years is the brightest ever, powered by the fastest growing black hole ever discovered that eats a sun every day.

Astronomers have discovered the most luminous object ever detected, a quasar 12 billion light-years away thats 500 trillion times more luminous than the sun.

The quasar is more than 500 trillion times brighter than the Sun and the supermassive black hole at its center has a massive appetite, eating equivalent of the mass of the Sun every day.

Astronomers have determined that cosmic winds around clouds of gas and dust are key for the formation of hot and dense young stars.

The radio signals hint at an important evolutionary step in the lives of galaxies.

The first black hole humanity has ever imaged has also provided us with what researchers are calling "unequivocal evidence" that black holes spin.

Astronomers have imaged the outskirts of an accretion disk gradually feeding a supermassive black hole for the first time, potentially boosting our understanding of such hungry cosmic monsters.

The 'wobble' of jets blasting out from active galaxies, or blazars, is 'smoking gun' evidence for supermassive black hole binary systems that elude astronomers, a new study reports.