This event marks the first real-time observation of a black hole transitioning from a quiescent to an active state.

The findings suggest black holes could provide a cheaper, natural alternative to billion-dollar particle colliders, if we can ...

But NGC 4945's supermassive black hole is ravenous ... taken as part of a larger study on how winds move in galaxies. The MUSE data shows that the galactic winds observed in NGC 4945 speed ...

Supermassive black holes are classified as having masses more ... “We expect that instruments like (MUSE on the VLT or those on the upcoming Extremely Large Telescope) will be key in ...

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a supermassive black hole. Normally, supermassive black holes live at the ...

In a surprising cosmic event, galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, has dramatically lit up after ...

Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black ...

A supermassive black hole around a million times the mass of the Sun just gave away its position in spectacular fashion. When a passing star veered a little too close, it was torn apart in the ...

Its supermassive black hole is estimated to be about 1 million ... observations with the VLT's Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) and Extremely Large Telescope, among others, and perhaps ...