A supermassive black hole around a million times the mass of the Sun just gave away its position in spectacular fashion. When a passing star veered a little too close, it was torn apart in the ...

The supermassive black hole involved has a mass on the order of a million suns. It's surrounded by what's called an accretion disk, which is a torus of hot gas swirling around the black hole ...

A supermassive black hole dormant for decades has just awakened in a distant ... These transitions depend on matter availability for absorption. Observing a live awakening is rare and valuable for ...

Flickers and Flares: Milky Way's Central Black Hole Constantly Bubbles With Light Feb. 18, 2025 — Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures an image of a supermassive black hole that is not at the center of its galaxy. Credit: NASA / ESA / STScI / Yuhan Yao / Joseph DePasquale Using NASA's Hubble ...

An artist's concept of a star's remnants forming a disk around a black hole. Illustration: NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole ...

Most large and spiral-shaped galaxies have a black hole, but this was difficult to locate. After decades of efforts, astronomers have found evidence suggesting a supermassive black hole in the ...

First observed in February 2024 by astronomers at Valparaiso University in Chile, this behavior grants scientists an unprecedented view of a black hole that seems to be awakening from dormancy ...

Webb witnessed a highly ionised gas whose level of energy was too high to come from something like supernovae, making scientists believe the presence of a supermassive black hole. The researchers ...

However, there is a rather complicated catch: A human can do this only if the respective black hole is supermassive and isolated, and if the person entering the black hole does not expect to report ...

Scientists cannot explain how a giant supermassive black hole with ... "We were able to observe the awakening of the massive black hole, [which] suddenly started to feast on gas," researcher ...

WATCH: Here’s the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our ...