What could force a supermassive black hole (SMBH) out of its host galaxy? They can have hundreds of millions, even billions ...

New Chandra X-ray study finds many dwarf galaxies may not host central massive black holes, challenging long-held assumptions about galaxy formation and black hole origins ...

A star’s fatal brush with a supermassive black hole can light up a quiet galaxy. When gravity shreds the star, its gas ...

But the supermassive black hole lurking at the core of NGC 3783 is 30 million times the mass of our humble sun, and the ...

Smaller black holes tend to attract less material, making them naturally dimmer. Chandra would miss many of these faint ...

Euclid telescope data shows merging galaxies are 2–6 times more likely to host active supermassive black holes, revealing how ...

Astronomers are learning more about the origins of supermassive black holes after new data is revealed from a 20-year-long ...

A new study, appearing in The Astrophysical Journal and based on observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ...

A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 sparks ultra-fast winds, offering new clues about ...

New observations suggest that the relationship between light emitted by quasars has changed over cosmic time, hinting that ...

A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...

The X‑arithmetic technique offers a powerful new way to map the physics of other galactic structures across the universe and ...