In the dense heart of the Milky Way, not only does a supermassive black hole reign, but a cloud of stellar-mass black holes ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

The observation of titanic jets emerging from the supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy could be a grim ...

This suggests that O-type stars experience black hole grinding. There are plenty of the smaller B-type stars in the region, ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

A massive spiral galaxy with a giant black hole is shooting huge energy jets, something scientists thought only elliptical ...

An international team of researchers used multi-wavelength observations of active galactic nuclei to study how black holes ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

In the center of the Milky Way, a turbulent region characterized by the presence of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A ...

Astronomers have discovered filaments of matter swirling tornado-like around the heart of the Milky Way, home to the ...

Although black hole radiation can be catastrophic in some cases, it may assist life once oxygen has accumulated in the planet ...

A surprising new study from Dartmouth and the University of Exeter researchers shows that when the supermassive black holes at the center of most large galaxies—including the Milky Way—consume ...