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

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

Scientists have confirmed that colossal collisions between galaxies trigger titanic eruptions in the centers of those ...

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

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

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

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 ...

For the first time, astronomers have caught the moment when a supermassive black hole flare triggers a mighty wind blasting ...

Galaxy mergers activate supermassive black holes, Euclid data shows, revealing more AGN in merging systems and new insights into galaxy evolution ...

Supermassive black holes are complex beasts. When abundant material reaches them, they can become active. The process of ...

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

Research records wind blasting out at 19% speed of light as X-ray burst from supermassive black hole rapidly igniting ...