New observations suggest that the relationship between light emitted by quasars has changed over cosmic time, hinting that ...

When a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy suddenly brightened in X-rays, astronomers watched it do something they had ...

An ultramassive black hole so huge it could swallow 30 billion suns has emerged from the cosmic background, revealed not by ...

Galaxy mergers activate supermassive black holes, Euclid data shows, revealing more AGN in merging systems and new insights into galaxy evolution ...

Scientists have confirmed that colossal collisions between galaxies trigger titanic eruptions in the centers of those galaxies, and the discovery is thanks to an artificial intelligence tool that was ...

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, discovered a rapid explosion of matter around the supermassive black hole ...

Astronomers have witnessed a dramatic and extremely fast outburst from a supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 ...

Most scientists agree the prolonged flash likely occurred when a black hole ate a star, but two other ideas can't be ruled ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

The European Space Agency said that the black hole inside the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 has the mass of 30 million suns.

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBH), if they exist, have between about 100 and 1,000 solar masses, placing them in between ...

But the supermassive black hole lurking at the core of NGC 3783 is 30 million times the mass of our humble sun, and the ...