For decades, astronomers have puzzled over how the supermassive black holes residing in the center of galaxies form. Now, ...

Researchers using XMM-Newton and Chandra telescopes have linked X-ray emissions from 21 distant quasars to rapid supermassive ...

"The results we are obtaining are truly unexpected, and all point to a super Eddington-type growth mechanism for black holes.

Under the right circumstances, dust and gas falling into these galactic cores can form a disk of hot material around the ...

A quasar is an exceptionally bright and uncommon supermassive black hole found at the core of a galaxy. NASA researchers have ...

Black holes have captivated scientists for more than a century. How well do you know these supermassive wonders of the universe?

New research reveals supermassive black holes, billions of times the mass of the sun, formed much more rapidly than ...

how are supermassive black holes able to feed on enough matter to grow to their gargantuan masses of millions or even billions of times the mass of our sun? Now, observations of the active galaxy ...

The most gigantic ones, known as “supermassive” black holes, can weigh millions to billions times the mass of the Sun. These giants usually live in the centers of galaxies. Our own galaxy, the Milky ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a groundbreaking image of the Sombrero Galaxy, revealing new details about its ...

Though we haven’t known about these awe-inspiring objects for very long, our knowledge has come a long way in recent years. Has your black hole knowledge been keeping up? Try as you might ...