The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...

A mysterious black hole has started behaving even more strangely, scientists have said. The supermassive black hole has been ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...

These images show different examples of black holes and accretion disks with various spin configurations: retrograde (black ...

Researchers found far more hidden black holes than previously known, indicating plenty of behemoths lurking in thick clouds ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

WASHINGTON: Scientists have observed flashes of X-rays emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy near our Milky Way, gradually ...

An international research team, including Newcastle University’s Dr Adam Ingram, has detected rapidly fluctuating X-rays ...

MIT astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive black hole at a steadily increasing clip. The source could be the core of a dead star that’s teetering at the black hole’s edge.

7, 2024 — Researchers conducted innovative simulations of spinning black holes grounded in general relativity, which clarified that the ultraluminous accretion disk (i.e., gaseous spiral ...

Astronomers have captured a groundbreaking phenomenon at the brink of a supermassive black hole located at the heart of ...