Mysterious Filament near Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole

Looking to the center of our galaxy, astronomers noted the presence of a mysterious filament extending from the supermassive black hole located there.

The most distant supermassive black hole ever observed

This black hole resides in a luminous quasar and its light reaches us from when the Universe was only 5 percent of its current age — just 690 million years after the Big Bang.

Infant stars discovered near Milky Way's supermassive black hole

ALMA has revealed signs of eleven low-mass stars forming perilously close — within three light-years — to the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, known to astronomers as Sagittarius A*.

Another Monster Black Hole Found in the Milky Way

A team of researchers from japan have found evidence of another massive black hole near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Astronomers detect orbital motion in pair of supermassive black holes

Astronomers have made the first detection of orbital motion in a pair of supermassive black holes in a galaxy some 750 million light-years from Earth.

Scientists Are Turning Earth Into a Telescope to See a Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope, or EHT, is a network of around ten radio telescope observatories across the planet, synchronized via the most precise atomic clocks, and pointed directly at the center of our galaxy.

This Giant Black Hole Set a Record for Longest-Ever Lunch

New research details the longest black hole brunch ever studied, in which a supermassive giant ripped apart a neighboring star and feasted on it for almost 10 years.

Deepest X-ray image to date uncovers a black hole bonanza

Researchers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to produce an X-ray image of space (the deepest-ever X-ray, in fact) that has uncovered an abundance of supermassive black holes.

This Entire Galaxy Is Being Ravaged by Its Supermassive Black Hole

A stunning new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a galaxy that's being strangled by tentacles of gas and dust. The strange and intricate shape of this celestial object is caused by a supermassive black hole.

Discovery nearly doubles known quasars from the ancient universe

New work from a team led by Carnegie’s Eduardo Bañados has discovered 63 new quasars from when the universe was only a billion years old.

Supermassive black holes in 'red geyser' galaxies cause galactic warming

Scientists are solving one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in galaxy evolution. Scientists have uncovered a new class of galaxies, called "red geysers," with supermassive black hole winds so hot and energetic that stars can't form.

Measuring a black hole 660 million times as massive as our sun

It's about 660 million times as massive as our sun, and a cloud of gas circles it at about 1.1 million mph. This supermassive black hole sits at the center of a galaxy dubbed NGC 1332, which is 73 million light years from Earth.

Monster black hole discovered in unlikely galaxy

Astronomers find a monster black hole 17 billion times more massive than the sun, raising suspicions supermassive black holes may be more common than first thought.

Mystery rays traced to giant black hole at galactic centre

Alien rays from outer space, which pass through our bodies every second of every day, have been traced to their source – a super-massive black hole that lies at the heart of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, German and Australian scientists have discovered.

REVEALED: Inside the heart of a galaxy-guzzling supermassive black hole

NASA has obtained its best ever images of a supermassive black hole and the mysterious ring that feeds the galactic gobbler.