Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...

The strange behavior of hypervelocity stars suggests a nearby dwarf galaxy must contain a supermassive black hole. If so, a ...

Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of ...

Located approximately 27,000 light-years (one light year equals approximately nine trillion kilometres) from Earth — relatively close when it comes to galactic black holes — Sag A* has an estimated ...

"Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive radio jet does not have an extreme black hole mass compared to other quasars ...

A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic ...

For the first time, researchers have found evidence that even microquasars with low-mass stars can efficiently accelerate ...

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...

The Milky Way can be seen as something of a bully, having devoured many smaller galaxies to achieve its vast mass, and ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

(For a quasar-powering supermassive black hole, that is. It still has a mass equivalent to 450 million suns). Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick "Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive ...