According to NASA, "there are hundreds of them"—massive black holes roaming space. It is now emerging and reshaping the ...

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

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 the complex physics driving ...

Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever detection of a mid-IR flare from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive massive ...

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

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?

The plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light-years from end to end - over 32 times the size of the Milky Way ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar ... Sgr A*'s presence creates a wild, turbulent region of space, with a huge torus of dust roiling around the supermassive ...

Our fascination with black holes is pretty understandable; their one-way boundary, the "event horizon," traps light, meaning no signal can ever travel from inside a black hole to outside.

Discover how researchers found a bizarre black hole feeding at an exceptional rate, challenging theories on black hole growth ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

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 ...