Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...
Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...
In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...
If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...
"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...
According to NASA, "there are hundreds of them"—massive black holes roaming space. It is now emerging and reshaping the ...
Black holes are notorious for gobbling up, well, everything. They're icons of destruction, ruthless voids, ambivalent abysses ...
Supermassive black holes can fuel their own growth by cooling and recycling gas, creating a continuous cycle of feeding and ...
When NASA detects two black holes colliding, the cosmos is in a state of chaos. Black holes lie at the centre of most ...
Artist's impression of a supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust in four different wavelengths of light. Visible ...
Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...