A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

According to NASA, "there are hundreds of them"—massive black holes roaming space. It is now emerging and reshaping the ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

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 ...

A team of scientists including the University of Toronto's Bart Ripperda and Braden Gail - assistant professor and graduate student, respectively, at ...

The image of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of massive elliptical galaxy M87, changed the world. It was the ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals how black holes sustain themselves by cooling surrounding gas and creating a self-feeding cycle. Discover the role of jets, gas filaments, and the latest ...