In other words, the matter traveled at 20% the speed of light.

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

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

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

A space telescope and AI teamed up to analyze a million galaxies and learn what triggers supermassive black holes the most.

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 ...

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

Approaching a black hole unleashes extreme tidal forces, stretching and tearing apart matter, including planets like Earth, a ...

Galaxy mergers activate supermassive black holes, Euclid data shows, revealing more AGN in merging systems and new insights into galaxy evolution ...

Supermassive black holes are complex beasts. When abundant material reaches them, they can become active. The process of ...

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

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.