the dormant black hole is 33 times more massive than the sun, making it the largest recorded stellar black hole in the Milky Way ...

An artist's conception of a black hole's corona, which are the pale swirls ... outcome is this brazen white dwarf (the spent core of a sun-like star), which is about one-tenth the mass of our ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered ...

These galaxy clusters host supermassive black holes; these black holes are a million to billions of times heavier than the Sun. Such supermassive black holes generate emissions that, in turn ...

How much does a black hole change in a year? Scientists may now have an idea, after taking a fresh look at the first-ever black hole to be imaged — the supermassive black hole M87*, , which ...

An artist's concept of the supermassive black hole's mid-infrared flare. Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the ...

of supermassive black holes — black holes with a mass at least 100,000 times that of our sun — in the universe. One probably lurks at the center of every large galaxy. But it is impossible for ...

A strange black ... hole 1ES 1927+654, which they spotted with the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton satellite. The most plausible outcome is this brazen white dwarf (the spent core of a sun ...

Black holes aren't just gorging themselves on whatever cosmic material is readily available—they're preparing those meals for themselves. Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that ...

By cooling and condensing the surrounding gas, black holes can sustain their growth indefinitely. Formed from the collapse of massive stars (8-10 times the mass of the Sun). The resulting mass is ...

It's no secret that black holes are some of the weirdest objects in space. Their disks are fluffy like cake, and diving into one is both interesting and terrifying. Now, a group of astronomers ...

Artistic illustration of the thick dust torus surrounding a supermassive black holes and its accretion disks. Credit: ESA / V. Beckmann (NASA-GSFC) By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR ...