Despite residing in one of the galaxy's most extreme star-forming environments — just 200 light-years from the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — and containing vast reserves of molecular gas, ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

When the galaxy set over the horizon for one telescope ... of radio waves from a ring of light encircling the shadow of a black hole more than 300 quintillion miles away. The weather was perfect ...

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* ... Panama Deals a Blow to Putin's Shadow Fleet Here's the Average Social ...

The behemoth, nicknamed J2345-0449, is a giant radio galaxy, or "super spiral" galaxy roughly three times the size of the Milky Way.Like our own spiral galaxy, it harbors a supermassive black hole ...

analyzed years of observations of a quasar—bright cores of a galaxy thought to be powered by a supermassive black hole—to ...

Astronomers have detected an erupting supermassive black hole producing some of the largest jets ever seen bursting from a galaxy with the same shape as our own. The galaxy in question also ...

And sometimes material falling into a black hole can be rerouted into two giant jets, firing in opposite directions out into the universe. The Milky Way (bottom) compared to the larger galaxy ...

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, ...

Some three times the size of our Milky Way, the galaxy lies nearly a billion years away from us. The team found that 2MASX J23453268−0449256 sports a supermassive black hole larger than thought ...

WATCH: Here’s the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our ...