"Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive radio jet does not have an extreme black hole mass compared to other quasars ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

When NASA detects two black holes colliding, the cosmos is in a state of chaos. Black holes lie at the centre of most ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

A team of scientists including the University of Toronto's Bart Ripperda and Braden Gail - assistant professor and graduate student, respectively, at ...

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up, well, everything. They're icons of destruction, ruthless voids, ambivalent abysses ...

The image of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of massive elliptical galaxy M87, changed the world. It was the ...