NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

In the case of the Milky Way, our Sun enjoys a 225 million year-long-orbit around the black hole Sagittarius A*. The galaxy NGC 5084 similarly rotates around a supermassive black hole, but in late ...

Multiple NASA telescopes recently helped scientists search the sky for supermassive black holes—those up to billions of times heavier than the sun. The new survey is unique because it was as likely to ...

Supermassive black holes with powerful jets of high-energy particles, pointing directly at Earth are called blazars.

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech There are likely ... so large—billions of times the mass of our Sun—and clarify the crucial role that black holes play in galactic evolution. Black holes have such ...

A supermassive black hole has been discovered by astronomers that's shooting a giant energy beam directly at Earth.

our Sun enjoys a 225 million year-long-orbit around the black hole Sagittarius A*. The galaxy NGC 5084 similarly rotates around a supermassive black hole, but in late December of 2024, NASA ...

"This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live very close to an event horizon for a relatively extended period of time." ...

The universe could be home to far more supermassive black holes than we realised, according to new research. Astronomers from ...