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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.

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 ...

Almost every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its centre, but in the grand scheme of the Universe, ours – called Sagittarius A* – is a veritable featherweight.Over the past decade ...

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 ...

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 ...