Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the first direct evidence of a wandering supermassive black ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Black holes are a dime a dozen in the cosmos. These destructive and terrifying cosmic ...

NGC 4945, a beautiful spiral galaxy over 12 million light-years away, hides a ferocious secret: a ravenous black hole at its ...

As for the cause of these enormous plasma jets, look no further than the massive black hole that sits at the center of 3C 348. It's an elliptical galaxy that's roughly 1,000 times larger than our ...

ESA; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: ATG Europe At the center of almost every galaxy lies a giant monster: a supermassive black hole that is ten of thousands or even millions of times the mass of the sun.

The black hole at the center of a galaxy named SDSS1335+0728, about 300 million light-years away, first showed signs of stirring when, in 2019, the galaxy started shining brightly. But since 2024, ...

The black hole at the heart of SDSS1335+0728—a distant galaxy 300 million light-years away—was found to have produced flashes of light known as quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs). These are ...

While the mechanism that fuels black holes is pretty well understood, astrophysicists don't know exactly why these galaxy-powering bodies emit these bright, energetic flares. According to Yusef ...

Scientists have pictured Sgr A*, the gargantuan black hole that lives at the centre of our Milky Way Galaxy. From the data they've gathered, the researchers can produce simulations of what it ...

This was true of the black hole at the heart of SDSS1335+0728, a distant and unremarkable galaxy 300 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. After being inactive for decades ...