The photo suggests that interstellar 'scraps' of matter are being strewn into space as the hungry black hole chows down on its dinner. "At the very center of nearly every galaxy is a supermassive ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Anyone who has watched Matthew McConaughey plunge into a supermassive black hole in "Interstellar" may think they have a rough idea of what it'd be like to encounter one of these terrifying cosmic ...

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 ...

The IRS 13 star cluster has long been a puzzle for astronomers. Located just a tenth of a light-year from the heart of our Milky Way galaxy where the Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole resides ...

Although supermassive black holes often look similar, each one devours material differently. One may gulp down whole stars’ worth of material every year, while others nibble slowly — taking ...

An image of the black hole, Sgr A*, stretching-out the interstellar cloud, X7. Anna Ciurlo/UCLA Last week, scientists presented us with another episode of The Scary Supermassive Black Hole Diaries.

Huge black holes, such as the one at the center of the Milky Way, tend to be pretty quiet (SN: 6/28/23).But occasionally, a surge of interstellar detritus rains down upon them — often following ...

A spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 exhibits powerful winds of material blowing from the supermassive black hole located at its core in a new photo taken by the Very Large Telescope in Chile.

The photo suggests that interstellar 'scraps' of matter are being strewn into space as the hungry black hole chows down on its dinner. "At the very center of nearly every galaxy is a supermassive ...