The plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light-years from end to end - over 32 times the size of the Milky Way ...

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 ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration" according to the European Southern Observatory. The ...

Discover how researchers found a bizarre black hole feeding at an exceptional rate, challenging theories on black hole growth ...

Stellar-Mass Black Holes Found at the Heart of the Milky Way's Largest Star Cluster Dec ... of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.