The European Space Agency said that the black hole inside the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 has the mass of 30 million suns.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Learn more about the supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 and how its powerful blast is similar to our sun’s coronal ...

On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...

A detailed suite of simulations conducted by astrophysicists at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators showed that magnetic fields can produce black holes with masses that were previously ...

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

Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they ...

A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...