The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...

When galaxies collide, it's not a gentle affair, but it does take millions of years. Over this time, the two massive star ...

In OJ 287, located some 3.5 billion light-years away, the intricate, extreme interplay between the two central supermassive ...

The discovery that black hole growth may not be limited to galactic centers could shed light on the role supermassive black holes, with masses millions or billions of times that of the sun, play in ...

It was spotted in the spiral galaxy NGC 3627, around 31 million light-years from our solar system in the constellation Leo.

For 50 years, astronomers have been searching for evidence of winds emanating from the black hole Sagittarius A*. Now, they ...

In a breakthrough study that redefines how we view the heart of our galaxy, astronomers have captured the first-ever direct evidence of hot winds emanating from Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the Milky ...

Most supermassive black holes don’t just swallow up matter, they eject it, sometimes in spectacular jets of super heated ...

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, which swirls inward until it eventually vanishes into a gravitational ...

Scientists have shot two black holes orbiting each other, offering the first ever definitive proof that these intergalactic ...

Using JWST and ALMA data, astronomers have spotted a superlong and narrow 'galactic contrail,' possibly produced by a black ...

Astronomers have caught a blast of hot wind streaming from the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sgr A*, for the first time ...