The giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), in the constellation Virgo, possesses near its center a supermassive black hole ...

For 50 years, astronomers have been searching for evidence of winds emanating from the black hole Sagittarius A*. Now, they ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

Supermassive black holes stand out for their fundamental role in the evolution of galaxies and the history of the universe.

Most supermassive black holes don’t just swallow up matter, they eject it, sometimes in spectacular jets of super heated ...

The discovery of a colossal black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – a dwarf galaxy that has orbited the Milky Way for billions of years – has both shocked and fascinated the global scientific ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...

New AI-enhanced images of Sgr A*, showing that our galaxy's black hole spins rapidly and tilts slightly toward Earth.

Standing on Earth and gazing out into the night sky, you’d think our Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm. Most nearby ...

Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.

"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...

The galaxy’s vast spiral arms span approximately 2,60,000 light-years, hosting over a trillion stars orbiting a supermassive black hole at its centre.