A spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 exhibits powerful winds of material blowing from the supermassive black hole located at its ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

A supermassive black hole that scientists have nicknamed "Ansky" is now awake after a long dormant period, emitting powerful ...

Languages: English and Italian. Scientists at Dartmouth and the University of Exeter have discovered that radiation emitted by supermassive black holes can have a surprising, nurturing effect on life.

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching colossal jets of energy, something once thought possible only in elliptical ...

Languages: English. Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, their very nature makes them difficult to spot and study. In contrast to ...

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 ...

The photo suggests that interstellar 'scraps' of matter are being strewn into space as the hungry black hole chows down on its dinner. "At the very center of nearly every galaxy is a supermassive ...