But the supermassive black hole lurking at the core of NGC 3783 is 30 million times the mass of our humble sun, and the ...

X-ray space telescopes caught a supermassive blackhole flinging matter into space at a fifth of the speed of light.

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBH), if they exist, have between about 100 and 1,000 solar masses, placing them in between ...

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole ...

A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

The record-setting cosmic outburst was actually a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful class of cosmic explosions.

A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 triggered ultra-fast winds racing outward at a fifth the speed of light—an event never witnessed before. Using XMM-Newton and ...

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

Scientists observed a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 releasing wind at 20% of the speed of light after a sudden X-ray flare. New data from XRISM and XMM-Newton explains how magnetic activi ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

Supersonic shock waves are cone-shaped disturbances that result from an object moving faster than the speed of sound. If you were unlucky enough to be struck by a primordial black hole, its shock ...