The supermassive black hole resides in a galaxy known as CEERS 1019, which existed 570 million years after the big bang. Just how the black hole existed so soon after the universe came to be ...

New state-of-the-art simulations performed by researchers from the University of Cambridge, U.K., suggest that it is the tremendous mass of the central supermassive black holes—which exist at ...

Most supermassive black holes got their start in fast-growing "halos" of dark ... He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat.

Even the largest supermassive black holes can be pushed around ... A team of astrophysicists at the Sorbonne University in Paris used state-of-the-art simulations of galaxy formation combined ...

Mergers made notable secondary contributions, especially over the past 5 billion years of cosmic time for the most-massive black holes. Overall, supermassive black holes of all masses grew much ...

In supermassive black holes like I Zw 1's, large amounts of gas fall toward the center (the event horizon, which is basically the point of no return) and tend to flatten out into a disk.

Black holes with masses equivalent to millions of suns do put a brake on the birth of new stars, say astronomers. Using machine learning and three state of the art simulations to back up results ...

RIT scientists will be the lead researchers on a $1.8 million NASA grant to study electromagnetic signals from merging supermassive black holes. The team will combine astrophysical knowledge with ...

A view of the M87 supermassive black hole in polarized light, as captured by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure polarization, a ...

In 2019, the same team captured an image of the black hole in the galaxy Messier 87, or M87. That image, the first ever taken of a black hole, is now enshrined in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The black hole in the Holmberg 15A galaxy has a mass nearly 40 billion times larger than the Sun and is the biggest to be measured using a method called direct dynamical detection.

Repeated studies of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy Messier 87 confirm that it continues to act as Einstein’s theory predicted it would. By Dennis Overbye Hello darkness, our old ...