The latest discovery marks the first-ever "compelling clue" that a black hole may be present in the enigmatic galaxy, ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "smoking gun" evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive ...

New data from the MIRI EGS Galaxy and AGN (MEGA) survey showcases the power of the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have peered into galaxies that existed at cosmic noon to hunt ravenously ...

Scientists have uncovered the strongest evidence yet for the existence of elusive intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), long thought to be the missing link between stellar-mass and supermassive black ...

Neutrinos may be produced by the environments near supermassive black holes like M31*. "Chandra has such fine spatial resolution that it can pick apart the X-ray emission from M31* from three ...

Quasars are distant galaxies ... X-Ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole Accelerate Mysteriously Jan. 13, 2025 — Astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive ...

More information: Hao Jiao et al, Direct Collapse Supermassive Black Holes from Ultralight Dark Matter, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.19414 Journal information: arXiv ...

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 ...

A supermassive black hole dormant for decades has just awakened in a distant galaxy. This sudden activation provides a unique opportunity to study the behavior of these cosmic giants in real time.

"For years, astronomers have searched for a black hole in M83 without success." Scientists have long believed that monster-sized supermassive ... and spatial resolution. Breaking space news ...

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 ...