Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

It's the closest supermassive black hole outside of our galaxy. Space. That galaxy next door? It's home to a monster black hole. March 6, 2025 1:05 PM ET. Heard on All Things Considered.

Researchers have found that the supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*, is spinning so rapidly that it is altering the fabric of space-time around it.

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.

The type of black hole that’s sitting in the center of a galaxy is different. This is a supermassive black hole, or SMBH, and — as its name implies — it’s much heftier.

A galaxy 300 million light-years away in space suddenly brightened four years ago. Astronomers think they have witnessed a black hole waking up.

Astronomers can’t see a black hole, but they can see the lensing effect and the gravitational pull on passing stars. The new study is based on recent observations using the Hubble Space ...

“The classic location where you expect massive black holes to be in a galaxy is in the center, like our Sag A* at the center of the Milky Way,” explained lead researcher Yuhan Yao of UC Berkeley.

Scientists watched as a three-quasar system merged in a supercomputer simulation of the universe to birth a black hole 300 billion times as massive as the sun.