Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to date, providing the clearest ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way has long looked quiet, a dim and seemingly dormant presence compared with the blazing monsters in distant galaxies. New X-ray observations ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

A near-infrared view of the stars near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. - ESO / S. Gillessen et al. Astronomers suspect the giant black hole at the heart of the Milky Way may have collided with ...

This understanding changed when Dikerby and his team pointed XRISM toward a large gas cloud near the galactic center.

A supermassive black hole residing within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - a satellite galaxy - is on a collision course ...

Astronomers already knew that the Milky Way hosts a central black hole, weighing some four million suns. From Earth, this black hole is a dense, tiny thing in the constellation Sagittarius, only as ...

JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge computing. Scientists have used a powerful neural network trained with ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way apparently flared up dramatically relatively recently. An echo of ...

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