The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...
Scientists imaged the heart of the OJ 287 galaxy, uncovering a curved plasma jet around what appears to be two merging ...
When galaxies collide, it's not a gentle affair, but it does take millions of years. Over this time, the two massive star ...
For 50 years, astronomers have been searching for evidence of winds emanating from the black hole Sagittarius A*. Now, they ...
At the center of the galaxy M87, located about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, lies M87*, a ...
In OJ 287, located some 3.5 billion light-years away, the intricate, extreme interplay between the two central supermassive ...
Most supermassive black holes don’t just swallow up matter, they eject it, sometimes in spectacular jets of super heated ...
Using JWST and ALMA data, astronomers have spotted a superlong and narrow 'galactic contrail,' possibly produced by a black ...
Scientists have shot two black holes orbiting each other, offering the first ever definitive proof that these intergalactic ...
Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black ...
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 ...
Astronomers have caught a blast of hot wind streaming from the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sgr A*, for the first time ...