supermassive black hole

The bubbles, which extend over 36,000 light-years, are being driven by energetic outflows from its supermassive black hole.

The black hole powers a region roughly the size of the solar system that is more luminous than

The supermassive black hole at the heart of the Centaurus A galaxy blasts out powerful radio jets as it ejects material into space at near light speed.

The weaving of stars around the Milky Way's central black hole shows how it dominates the heart of the galaxy.

New research from the Hubble Space Telescope suggests that our galaxy's central black hole Sagittarius A* belches out jets of material as it swallows surrounding gas clouds.

Researchers may now understand how the supermassive black hole at the heart of M87 launches a jet of plasma spreading across thousands of light-years.

The material that billows out from feeding supermassive black holes stretches for thousands of light-years "impacting anything that stands in their way."

Scientists found the elusive black hole with a mass 10,000 times that of the Sun after it gave off the powerful X-ray flare.

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope, researchers have observed two supermassive black holes that existed when the Universe was just 2 billion years old.

An expert tells Newsweek about how long it takes these cosmic behemoths to die, why they're here, and what we're trying to figure out about them.

"We've seen outbursts in the centers of galaxies before, but this one is really, really massive," researcher Melanie Johnston-Hollitt said.

"It's not just a rare chance event. There has to be a mechanism to form them," study author Anna Ciurlo told "Newsweek."

Researchers say that the object is moving around ten times faster than most stars in the galaxy.

Images from the James Webb Space Telescope will be the highest quality ever obtained, researchers say.

Researchers estimate that the explosion lasted for approximately 300,000 years.

"We have never seen anything like this in the 24 years we have studied the supermassive black hole," researcher Andrea Ghez said.

The two balloon-like structures stretch hundreds of light-years and are thought to have formed in a violent eruption seven million years ago.

Scientists are now trying to work out what caused the mystery burst .

Scientists found the enormous black hole after spotting an "unusual" object at the core of a bright galaxy cluster about 700 million light years from Earth.

The black hole is located at the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 3147 around 130 million light-years away from Earth.

Astronomers have measured the spin rate of five, distant supermassive black holes for a study published in the Astrophysical Journal.

Computer simulations points to a new theory on how the universe's first giant black holes came to be—and soon scientists will be able to test it for real.

The galaxy belongs to a recently discovered, rare and unusual class of stellar systems known as ultracompact dwarfs.

The theory of general relativity, which describes the nature of gravity, revolutionized science after its publication in 1915.

The image reveals in incredible detail a fiery region surrounding the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of the Milky Way.

The incredible discovery will help astronomers unlock the secrets of the universe's very first galaxies.

"It was surprising, but you like to be surprised in science."

The behemoth gobbles up the equivalent of our sun's mass every two days.

Competing winds from black holes and stars wrestle to give this galaxy its strange butterfly shape.

The planets face supernovas, gamma-ray bursts and gravity-disrupting stars in the crowded center of the Milky Way.