Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

Often seen as destructive, supermassive black holes could help sustain life under specific conditions, scientists have found.

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago, according to new research published in Nature Astronomy from an ...

Flickers and Flares: Milky Way's Central Black Hole Constantly Bubbles With Light Feb. 18, 2025 — Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk ...

WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of light from Earth's southern hemisphere and ...

This dwarf galaxy, a satellite of our galaxy, may have its own supermassive black hole. Evidence for this hidden cosmic titan was delivered via hypervelocity stars at the edge of the Milky Way ...

This suggests the material is orbiting a supermassive black hole, which powers active galactic nuclei (AGN). The problem with the AGN model for the little red dots is that their intensity in the ...

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 ...

This can happen in many ways, including the titanic explosion of a dying star or the collapse of primordial hydrogen into the supermassive black holes at the core of most large galaxies.

These were the longest continuous observations yet of our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole. The telescope revealed a “constant bubbling” in the disk’s light that changed every few ...

A study based on the trajectory of nine fast-moving stars observed at the fringes of the Milky Way provides strong evidence for the existence of a supermassive black hole inside the Large ...