First images of Milky Way’s black hole released 02:13. The iconic 2019 image of a supermassive black hole that has since been dubbed the "orange donut" has gotten a makeover.

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered yet another astounding discovery, spying an active supermassive black hole deeper into the universe than has ever been recorded. The black hole lies ...

Supermassive black holes are classified as having masses more than 100,000 times that of our sun. They can be found at the center of most galaxies, including the Milky Way.

This is a galactic-sized problem. Scientists revealed Tuesday that galaxy PBC J2333.9-2343 has been reclassified after discovering a supermassive black hole that is currently facing our solar ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a runaway supermassive black hole racing through space followed by a tail of infant stars 200,000 light-years long.

Sagittarius A*—the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way—is presently in a dormant state, although astronomers believe that it did have large-scale radio jets in the past.

Astronomers had been watching this particular supermassive black hole since 2019, when it flared brightly with visible and ultraviolet light: an outburst that marked the violent death of a star.

An illustration of the gaseous wind "bullets" firing out of the supermassive black hole PDS 456. Audard et al. / Nature. In their study, the researchers used XRISM to observe the gas outflows from ...

Winds from supermassive black holes may accelerate particles to ultra-high energies, potentially explaining the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with energies up to 10 20 electron volts.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Recent analysis of M87's supermassive black hole shows it spins at about 80% of the theoretical maximum, with its accretion disk's inner edge moving at 0.14c.