The European Space Agency said that the black hole inside the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 has the mass of 30 million suns.

X-ray space telescopes caught a supermassive blackhole flinging matter into space at a fifth of the speed of light ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

NASA has created an animation to show what likely happened on July 2nd after a black hole appeared to shred a star. For ...

A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...

A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...

Scientists have confirmed that colossal collisions between galaxies trigger titanic eruptions in the centers of those ...

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

Learn more about the supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 and how its powerful blast is similar to our sun’s coronal ...

A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 triggered ultra-fast winds racing outward at a fifth the speed of light—an event never witnessed before. Using XMM-Newton and ...

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

Supermassive black holes are complex beasts. When abundant material reaches them, they can become active. The process of ...