According to the research shared at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in National Harbor, Maryland, the ...

Supermassive black holes can have trillions of times more mass than the Sun, only exist in specific locations, and could ...

Astronomers discover a supermassive black hole, weighing 700 million suns, firing a giant energy beam directly at Earth from ...

There’s plenty of action at the center of the galaxy, where a supermassive black hole (SMBH) known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) literally holds the galaxy together. Part of that action is the creation ...

Astronomers detected X-ray flashes from the black hole that increased in frequency from one every 18 minutes to one every seven minutes.

"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...

The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...

The observations revealed features never before seen in real time around a supermassive black hole. Among them was the launch ...

A new study suggests more supermassive black holes may be lurking in the universe than previously thought. Astronomers from ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery, ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...