supermassive black holes
How an Earth-Sized Telescope Images Supermassive Black Holes
Ziri Younsi, a member of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, explains how scientists managed to photograph a black hole across 55 million light years.
Scientists Found a Raging Galactic Core From Near the Beginning of Time
The active galactic nucleus is powered by a supermassive black hole and was spotted just 670 million years after the Big Bang, making it the most distant quasar ever discovered.
Scientists Are Hunting for a Mysteriously Missing Supermassive Black Hole
A distant galaxy should have a back hole that is billions of times more massive than the Sun, but it's nowhere to be found. Where is it?
A Black Hole Is Eating a Web of Galaxies on the Edge of Spacetime
It has taken virtually the entire lifespan of the universe for the light from the 'Web of the Giant' to reach Earth.
A Star Is Orbiting our Galaxy's Black Hole in a Stunning Pattern
In yet another win for Albert Einstein’s theories, scientists report the first ever detection of “Schwarzschild precession” around a black hole.
A Black Hole’s Energy Beam is Seemingly Breaking the Laws of Physics
New observations reveal that an “extraordinary” optical illusion on a massive scale is making a jet from the galaxy 3C 279 appear to move 20 times faster than the speed of light.
Scientists See Trippy Quadrupled Black Hole While Peering Through a Galaxy
Using another galaxy as a telescope created a trippy quadrupling effect in a rare image of an exploding black hole from the early universe.
An Ancient Black Hole as Heavy as a Billion Suns Is Pointed Right At Us
The blazar—powered by an extremely bright black hole that can blast a hole through galaxies—is the most ancient ever discovered, sending radio signals from the early universe
Three Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Crash Course, NASA Says
“This is the strongest evidence yet found for such a triple system of actively feeding supermassive black holes.”
Our Galaxy's Black Hole Suddenly Lit Up and Nobody Knows Why
In May, the supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way became 75 times brighter in just two hours.
Here’s How Scientists Plan to Watch Supermassive Black Hole Collisions
“When these objects merge, there is more energy produced than the rest of the universe put together.”
A Black Hole Has Been Shredding a Star Twice the Size of the Sun for 10 Years
Astronomers have been watching the full fallout of a tidal disruption event for years.