As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

Everything about the Infinity Galaxy, recently discovered by the JWST, is strange. One odd feature could be the 1st evidence ...

Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive ...

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

The Milky Way may have had a second black hole at its heart between 10 billion and 10 million years ago—one that acted a bit like a star goalkeeper.. This is the conclusion of a study by ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Distant galaxy has no more stars being born as a supermassive black hole strips away all the ... Willott, C. J. (2024). A fast-rotator post-starburst galaxy quenched by supermassive black-hole ...

Now, researchers studying a rare galaxy merger with three supermassive black holes at its center may have finally discovered the origins of these cosmic monsters.. Using a high-resolution ...