Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...

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A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

Astronomers discover a supermassive black hole, weighing 700 million suns, firing a giant energy beam directly at Earth from ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, first proposed by Albert Einstein 110 ...

The fastest-growing black hole in the universe dubbed J2157 is on a diet of one sun a day, according to a new study by the Australian National University. Not only is it the brightest black hole ...

“Black Hole Sun” debuts on two Billboard charts this week. The single gained in consumption thanks to the solar eclipse that recently passed over the United States a little more than a week ag ...

A black hole has no more vacuuming power than a regular star; it just possesses extraordinary grip for its size. If our sun suddenly were to become a black hole—not going to happen, but let’s ...

Our galaxy's central black hole, Sagittarius A*, is a gargantuan tear in space-time that is 4 million times the mass of the sun and 14.6 million miles (23.5 million kilometers) wide.

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...