Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have discovered "signs of a ‘hot spot’ ...

Supermassive black holes stand out for their fundamental role in the evolution of galaxies and the history of the universe.

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

New AI-enhanced images of Sgr A*, showing that our galaxy's black hole spins rapidly and tilts slightly toward Earth.

The giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), in the constellation Virgo, possesses near its center a supermassive black hole ...

For 50 years, astronomers have been searching for evidence of winds emanating from the black hole Sagittarius A*. Now, they ...

Most supermassive black holes don’t just swallow up matter, they eject it, sometimes in spectacular jets of super heated ...

Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...

Standing on Earth and gazing out into the night sky, you’d think our Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm. Most nearby ...

For the first time, astronomers have managed to capture a radio image showing two black holes orbiting each other. The ...

The Milky Way’s galactic center (inset) is home to strange, death-defying stars that manage to survive close encounters with our galaxy’s supermassive black hole. New research reveals the unintended ...