3 days ago · Cambridge, MA - Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This giant black hole is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the nearest galactic neighbors to our own. To make this …

Feb 21, 2025 · Intermediate-mass black holes might be relics of the first black holes. These mid-range black holes are harder to find. Unlike stellar-mass black holes, they aren’t preceded by a …

Feb 19, 2025 · An artist’s illustration depicts the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*. It’s surrounded by a swirling accretion disk of hot gas …

Feb 18, 2025 · Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of our home Milky Way galaxy. It has a mass equal to billions of suns and has an accretion disk made up of gas and …

3 days ago · One star is captured into a tight orbit around the black hole, while the other is flung outward at extreme velocities—often exceeding thousands of kilometers per second.This …

Feb 18, 2025 · Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a detailed look at the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sgr A*, finding it endlessly …

3 days ago · Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This giant black hole is located in the Large Magellanic …

4 days ago · The supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A* or Sgr A* for short, is about 4 million times as heavy as the sun and lies about 26,000 light-years from our solar system.

Jan 13, 2025 · Multiple NASA telescopes recently helped scientists search the sky for supermassive black holes — those up to billions of times heavier than the Sun. The new …

Apr 7, 2023 · A supermassive black hole that weighs as much as 20 million suns is hurtling through the universe, leaving a trail of newborn stars in its wake.

3 days ago · The Large Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor to the Milky Way, may house a giant black hole. It's the closest supermassive black hole outside of our galaxy.

Feb 21, 2025 · Flaring hot spots that resemble solar flares are seen in the disk. A supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way galaxy is creating a light show that's intriguing …

Apr 17, 2024 · Artist’s impression of the system with the most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy. The Milky Way has a big newfound black hole, and it lurks close to Earth! This …

Apr 16, 2024 · Astronomers have discovered the Milky Way's "most massive" stellar black hole yet. The newly discovered black hole is 33 times bigger than the sun and 2,000 light years …

Apr 13, 2023 · Scientists have released new, clearer images of a supermassive black hole which was first discovered in 2019. The new image retains the distinctive shape that the first image …

Apr 12, 2021 · Black holes are some of the most bizarre and fascinating objects in the cosmos. Astronomers want to study lots of them, but there’s one big problem – black holes are …

Get the latest on black holes, from the gorging black holes in faraway quasars to the quiet beast at the center of the Milky Way.

Apr 6, 2023 · This supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left behind a never-before-seen 200,000-light-year-long "contrail" of newborn stars, twice the diameter of …

As far as we know this is impossible and so your fate is sealed: the mega gravity of the black hole will tear you limb-from-limb in a process known as ‘spaghettification’. Curious about black …

Apr 26, 2023 · The M87 black hole is supermassive, with a mass 6.5 billion times that of our sun and is larger and more luminous than our Milky Way.

Feb 23, 2022 · Black holes are regions of space with gravitational fields so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Their sizes vary from stellar to supermassive.