A black hole 30 million times the mass of the sun has produced winds one-fifth the speed of light, stunning scientists.

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

Most smaller galaxies may not have supermassive black holes in their centers, according to a recent study using NASA's ...

X-ray space telescopes caught a supermassive blackhole flinging matter into space at a fifth of the speed of light ...

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

A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 triggered ultra-fast winds racing outward at a fifth the speed of light—an event never witnessed before. Using XMM-Newton and ...

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole ...

NASA’s new X‑ray images reveal how supermassive black holes sculpt galaxy clusters. Jets, bubbles, and ripples reshape cosmic ...

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBH), if they exist, have between about 100 and 1,000 solar masses, placing them in between ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ground-based observations at this wavelength." ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.