A nearby active galaxy called VV 340a offers a dramatic look at how a supermassive black hole can reshape its entire host.
"It's like watching a cosmic volcano erupt again after ages of calm — except this one is big enough to carve out structures ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered its clearest view yet of a supermassive black hole's immediate surroundings, ...
A supermassive black hole is reawakening inside a distant galaxy cluster—and after almost 100 million years of slumber, ...
Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...
We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large ...
Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...
New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed ...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have discovered "signs of a ‘hot spot’ ...
Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to date, providing the clearest ...
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.
Astronomers at W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea discovered “the clearest evidence yet that a supermassive black hole can ...