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.

There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy – and we may be ready to find them, scientists say. That hope comes after researchers found the first ever ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

The first image of a black hole, released by astronomers in 2019, was astonishing, amazing, awe-inspiring and all that jazz, but it was also (to be perfectly frank) blurry.Even to the astronomers ...

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.

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.