Tag: supermassive

New research shows that the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy can have a direct impact on ...

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) – black holes with masses exceeding a million times that of the Sun – are known ...

Researchers have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date with the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy, ...

Researchers have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The ...

Following 15 years of data collection in a galaxy-sized experiment, scientists have “heard” the perpetual chorus of gravitational waves rippling ...

Astronomers have found that supermassive black holes obscured by dust are more likely to grow and release tremendous amounts of ...

A mysterious trail of stars formed eight thousand million years ago and recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope has ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A distant star, dying a fiery and dramatic death, torn apart by a supermassive black hole ...

In the outer regions of the Milky Way, our blue planet rotates in its orbit around the Sun, the massive ...

For two decades, scientists have observed an elongated object named X7 near the supermassive black hole at the center of ...

Astronomers from the University of Texas and the University of Arizona have discovered a rapidly growing black hole in one of the ...

Astronomers have spotted two ghostly Goliaths en route to a cataclysmic meeting. The newfound pair of supermassive black holes are ...

What happens when a dying star flies too close to a supermassive black hole? Credit: Carl Knox – OzGrav, ARC ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have spotted signs of a ‘hot spot’ orbiting Sagittarius A*, the black ...

Black holes with varying light signatures but that were thought to be the same objects being viewed from different angles ...

Three years ago, the first ever image of a black hole stunned the world. A black pit of nothingness enclosed ...

Astronomers have identified a rapidly growing black hole in the early universe that is considered a crucial "missing link" between ...

Key research finding A team of researchers from Purdue University and other institutions have discovered a supermassive black hole binary ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has observed a cloud of cosmic dust at the centre ...

Black holes aren’t always in the dark. Astronomers have spotted intense light shows shining from just outside the event horizon ...