Astronomers have discovered powerful X-ray jets from two ancient supermassive black holes being illuminated by the afterglow of the Big Bang.

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding supermassive black hole.

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

His research will investigate how supermassive black holes, or SMBHs, were "seeded" in the early universe. Seeding refers to the formation of an initial small black hole that grows—either by accreting ...

Researchers say there are far more supermassive black holes out there than we previously suspected, and they're starting to find them.

Using this technique, they discovered that the black hole Sagittarius A* is spinning at nearly its maximum speed, and that its rotation axis is pointing toward Earth. This discovery challenges some ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are stellar-mass black holes, formed by collapsing stars, with masses between 5 ...