Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

That has never been observed around a supermassive black hole before.” A paper reporting the results, co-authored by Masterson, Meyer and others, was posted to the preprint server arXiv.org in ...

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Here’s how it works. Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole that's shooting a giant energy beam directly at Earth. The cosmic juggernaut, which is about as massive as 700 million ...

Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center ... technique has been successfully used in the past to study volcanoes on the surface of Jupiter's moon Io.

In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. Astronomers developed this ...

Strange vibrations emanating from a supermassive black hole appear to be growing more frequent and they could be caused by a white dwarf star orbiting perilously close to its event horizon.

A recent survey of supermassive black holes reveals that their spin rates reveal something about their formation history. Astronomers have been battling threats to their clear skies on all fronts ...

Expect the unexpected In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. (Courtesy: ...