The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party—and it is weird, wild and wonderful.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a detailed look at the supermassive black hole at the heart of ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive ...

NASA telescope gets most detailed glimpse of Milky Way's supermassive black hole.Source: Northwestern University ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

The strange behavior of hypervelocity stars suggests a nearby dwarf galaxy must contain a supermassive black hole. If so, a ...

NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.

New observations using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal a "unique" ongoing, rapid-fire light show.

The telescope observed a steady flickering of light punctuated by occasional bright flares as material is drawn inward by the ...

Farhad Yusef-Zadeh/Northwestern University The supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is putting on a relentless display of flickers and flares, according to new observations from ...

Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of ...