Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

Astronomers have spotted displays of flashing lights and “fireworks” near a supermassive black hole at the center of the ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

A team of astrophysicists have found flares of light in Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky ...

Recently, astronomers focused on a galaxy 270 million light years away, which hosts a supermassive black hole known as 1ES 1927+654. The black hole, researchers have now observed, has been ...

Wolk Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, revealing how past flares from Sagittarius A* interacted with ...

At double the width of our Milky Way galaxy, this jet of radio waves ... quasars are galactic cores with gas and dust falling into a black hole, releasing a tremendous amount of energy that ...

Does the LMC have a supermassive black hole (SMBH) that's ejecting some HVSs into the Milky Way? Most stars in the Milky Way travel at about 100 km/s, whereas HVSs can travel as quickly as about ...

Expect the unexpected In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. (Courtesy: ...

An illustration of the largest radio jet ever seen in the early universe twice as long as the Milky Way. | Credit ... (For a quasar-powering supermassive black hole, that is.

making it twice as long as the width of the Milky Way. Even more surprisingly, the black hole that powers the quasar from which this jet erupts, designated J1601+3102, is relatively small.

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as ... the entities are enormous (Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our Milky Way is 4.3 million times bigger than the sun.) ...