The location of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A. (Image credit: F. Baganoff et al./NASA/CXC/MIT) At the center of our galaxy lies the supermassive black hole ...

This remarkable space wallpaper shows an artist’s impression depicts the newly discovered stellar-mass black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 300. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

At the center of the Milky Way lurks a shadowy giant, a supermassive black hole that draws in stars and gas on which it feasts. As with all black holes, this one is an overeager eater, surrounded ...

“It’s a very cool, ... Almost every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center. When galaxies merge, their central black holes also eventually merge (SN: 3/5/21).

The researchers suggest that the supermassive black hole may be pushing out these super-fast and cool winds, ripping away the gas needed for stars to form and starving the galaxy to death.

The 2019 image of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy Messier 87 has a mass roughly 6.5 billion times that of our sun and is producing a powerful jet of material that spews into deep ...

The monster black hole at the center of our galaxy is shooting out “spitballs” the size of planets—and one may be sprinting through space several hundred light-years away from Earth.

Galaxy IC 5249 (circled) is a spiral galaxy viewed edge on from Earth. That galaxy looks similar to a trail of light previously suggested to be stars that formed in the wake of a runaway black ...

The researchers suggest that the supermassive black hole may be pushing out these super-fast and cool winds, ripping away the gas needed for stars to form and starving the galaxy to death.

Sky map showing 25,000 supermassive black holes. Each white dot is a supermassive black hole in its own galaxy. LOFAR/LOL Survey. It might look like a map of stars, but that's not what is shown in ...