Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

Located at the center of another galaxy, not far in space and time from the Big Bang, is this new supermassive black hole. And what’s more, this one is hungry. NSF NOIRlab.

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.

It could be that close black hole binaries like this one are actually quite common in the universe. The research is also relevant to our own galaxy, the Milky Way, as we are set to crash into the ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way may look more like a football than a circle, new research suggests. The new study, which appears in Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

The supermassive black hole pictured resides at the center of a relatively nearby galaxy called Messier 87, or M87, about 54 million light-years from Earth. Sign up here.

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" out excess mass at nearly a third of the speed of light.