A supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) may be the source of nine stars zooming through our galaxy – a surprising hint that dwarf galaxies can host large black holes.

The supermassive black hole resides about 55 million light-years away in the center of the nearby Messier 87 galaxy — also known as M87, according to the study. Scientists found the black hole's ...

Picture a black hole so powerful that it swallows the equivalent of one sun every day.. Now imagine that black hole also has a mass that's 17 billion times larger than our sun. Scientists in ...

First images of Milky Way’s black hole released 02:13. Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet, a cosmic beast formed a mere 470 million years after the Big Bang.. The findings ...

The black hole at the center of the Milky Way is referred to as Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*, which is pronounced “sadge-ay-star.” It is more than a thousand times smaller than the black hole in ...

By looking at radio waves and X-ray emissions, a team of physicists has found the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* to be spinning— and altering space-time around it.

Artist's impression of the bright core region of a quasar. An ancient supermassive black hole powering a distant quasar is much larger than we'd expect considering the young age of the universe, T ...

Scientists on Wednesday announced the discovery of the oldest black hole ever seen, a 13-billion-year-old object that's actually "eating" its host galaxy to death. Astronomers made the discovery ...

The black hole's eating behavior shows how these colossal beasts grow. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In December of 2019 ...

An image of what looks like a glowing orange donut is actually the first picture of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

New research from a professor at the Kansas State University that used imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope gives credence to a scientific theory that says the Milky Way is inside of a ...