Latest about supermassive black hole
Black hole 'traffic jams' are forcing cosmic monsters to collide, new study finds
Supermassive black holes may create conditions akin to "cosmic intersections with failed traffic lights" that make collisions between smaller stellar-mass black holes inevitable.
Explosive black hole flare from the center of our galaxy reconstructed from 'a single flickering pixel' using AI and Einstein's equations
An explosive flare from the Milky Way's central black hole has been translated from 'a single flickering pixel' into a detailed 3D model using AI and Einstein's general relativity equations.
Milky Way's monster black hole may be shooting superheated jets into our galaxy, groundbreaking images reveal
A new polarized light image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* has given us our first clear look at the magnetic field of the cosmic juggernaut, which suggests that it may have superheated jets just like even larger black holes.
1st detection of 'hiccupping' black hole leads to surprising discovery of 2nd black hole orbiting around it
Scientists found a monster black hole that 'hiccups' every 8.5 days, and a smaller black hole that keeps punching through its accretion disk may be to blame.
Astronomers find heaviest black hole pair in the universe, and they've been trapped in an endless duel for 3 billion years
Two supermassive black holes spotted circling inside a remote 'fossil' galaxy are the heaviest, and the closest, black hole binary ever found.
Brightest black hole ever discovered devours a sun's-worth of matter every day
A distant quasar that was initially mistaken for a star is actually one of the brightest and fastest-growing black holes ever seen.
Event Horizon Telescope spies gargantuan energy jets erupting from nearby supermassive black hole
Astronomers investigated an active supermassive black hole at the heart of Perseus A using the Event Horizon Telescope, spotting an epic battle between gravity and magnetism.
How many times has the sun traveled around the Milky Way?
Our solar system has been orbiting the Milky Way's black hole heart for 4.6 billion years. But it is hard to pin down exactly how many trips around the galaxy our sun has made during that time.
James Webb telescope reveals 'nursery' of 500,000 stars in the chaotic heart of the Milky Way
A dazzling new James Webb telescope image of the region near the Milky Way's central black hole reveals thousands of newborn stars among the "most extreme cosmic environment" in the galaxy.
Universe's oldest X-ray-spitting quasar could reveal how the biggest black holes were born
The newly identified quasar, observed 13.7 billion light-years away by the James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, could be an example of a heavy black hole "seed" in the early universe.
