Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...
There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...
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 ...
For years, the estimated number of hidden supermassive black holes hovered around 15 percent. This still means tens if not ...
International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...
Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.
Galaxy clusters are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars.
Feeding supermassive black holes are more common in the cosmos than previously suspected. What could possibly hide such ...