"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 ...

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

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

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

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, called Sagittarius A*, is about four times more massive than this one. White dwarfs are among the most compact objects in the cosmos ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly quiet. It’s not creating any galaxy-wide tantrums that should worry us.

Dunlap department of astronomy and astrophysics in the Faculty of Arts & Science – have made the first-ever detection of a mid-infrared (mid-IR) flare from the supermassive black hole at the centre of ...

the dormant black hole is 33 times more massive than the sun, making it the largest recorded stellar black hole in the Milky Way ...

Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...

Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by huge clouds of material. It's this material, heated by friction and gravity as ...