Supermassive black holes are mysterious bodies. Now a new preprint study is shedding light on Sagittarius A* by studying what ...

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

The gravitational lens JVAS B1938+666 consists of massive bodies ranging from 6.5 billion to 11 billion light-years away, ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched ...

Across the sky, astronomers are stitching together vast samples of galaxies to understand how often supermassive black holes ...

Astronomers have just watched a supermassive black hole tear apart a gigantic star, releasing a burst of light so intense it ...

This understanding changed when Dikerby and his team pointed XRISM toward a large gas cloud near the galactic center.

Some discoveries emerge softly, with no explosions or satisfying conclusions. Astronomers were watching a distant flare from ...

Astronomers have captured the moment a supermassive black hole literally tore apart a super sun (one 30 times larger than our ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way apparently flared up dramatically relatively recently. An echo of ...