The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, watched the moment a feeding supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy spat out a jet of material at one-third of the speed of light.

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy NEW YORK -- Scientists have spotted what ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

This galaxy is one of the nearest with an AGN. The observations had the proper spatial resolution to focus on the components emitting this kind of radiation. The results are now published in Nature ...

"The relative size scales of a supermassive black hole to its host galaxy is like comparing a pea to the Earth," study team leader Peter Boorman, a researcher at the California Institute of ...

NASA’s study uncovers that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden by gas and dust, reshaping our understanding of galaxy ...

The dense regions of the universe, like galaxy clusters, are dominated by giant elliptical galaxies: massive, ancient galaxies that consist of old stars. The reason why supermassive black holes ...

Astrophysicists are marveling at the latest celestial discovery made near the Milky Way's supermassive ... system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy, confirming ...

This makes ASASSN-22ci — the result of a feeding supermassive black hole located relatively close to Earth at around 408 million light-years away in the heart of the galaxy WISEA J122045.05 ...

Instead, they seem to be lurking behind the vast veils of galactic gas and dust that help feed them. "The relative size scales of a supermassive black hole to its host galaxy is like comparing a pea ...