Scientists are observing the behaviour of a supermassive black hole that is displaying exceptionally messy eating habits.
There is a lot we have yet to understand about the center of the Milky Way—could it be due to a mass of invisible dark matter?
The canonical image of a supermassive spacetime abyss anchored at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is challenged by ...
Scientists say a jet from a previously studied supermassive black hole has grown brighter, becoming one of the most energetic events in the universe.
For decades, the motions of stars near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy have been treated as some of the clearest evidence ...
Physicists think a 2023 particle detection marks the first exploding black hole seen. If true, it rewrites our understanding of dark matter.
Scientists observe a supermassive black hole producing an unprecedented, years-long jet after destroying a star, creating one ...
The sharpest black hole collision ever detected just gave Einstein another win—and raised hopes that the next one might ...
Researchers have found what might be a little red dot transitioning into its final state, where x-rays burst through its gas ...
Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...
Astronomers have continued to monitor it ever since. Far from fading again, the TDE has grown 50 times brighter, and that brightness continues to increase. The black hole’s energy emission might not ...