We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space telescope shows that might not always have been the case.

New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

Supermassive black holes are mysterious bodies. Now a new preprint study is shedding light on Sagittarius A* by studying what ...

New evidence reveals the Milky Way’s black hole once erupted, genes hide mutation hot spots, and AI accelerates sodium ...

Combining observations from several powerful telescopes, astronomers have detected a gargantuan, 'wobbling' black hole ...

Astronomers at W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea discovered “the clearest evidence yet that a supermassive black hole can ...

Researchers are finding out more about a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, discovering that it has been leaking gases for several thousand years and is not the sleeping ...

A supermassive black hole is reawakening inside a distant galaxy cluster—and after almost 100 million years of slumber, ...

Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to date, providing the clearest picture yet of the probability that galaxies of different sizes host active ...

"It's like watching a cosmic volcano erupt again after ages of calm — except this one is big enough to carve out structures ...