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The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered its clearest view yet of a supermassive black hole's immediate surroundings, ...

It's the clearest view yet of the dust at the heart of the Circinus galaxy.

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched unfold so quickly. Using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton and the ...

New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed ...

When a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy suddenly brightened in X-rays, astronomers watched it do something they had never seen before: within hours, the flare appeared to ignite winds racing ...

"This is a structure we've never seen before, so it could be a new class of dark object." ...

Black Hole blast unleashes ultra-fast winds at one-fifth the speed of light Astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole firing off a never-before-seen cosmic blast, a rapid X-ray flare followed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Supermassive black holes are mysterious bodies. Scientists aren’t entirely sure how these beating hearts at the centers of most ...

Astronomers have captured the moment a supermassive black hole literally tore apart a super sun (one 30 times larger than our own) and released a burst of energy equivalent to 400 billion suns.

From planet-scorching stellar outbursts to cataclysms so powerful they shiver the very fabric of spacetime, these are some of the biggest blasts our cosmos has to offer ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a trio of NASA astrophysics small satellites along with dozens of commercial spacecraft on a rideshare mission Jan. 11.