A new study shows that black holes consume gas which creates an outburst that cools nearby gas for the black hole to consume ...

Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that black holes can cool gas to the proper temperature for a cosmic feast ...

Artist's impression of a supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust in four different wavelengths of light. Visible light (top right) and low-energy X-rays (bottom left) are blocked by the gas ...

Supermassive black holes, 1,000 times larger than previously thought, have been discovered in LRD-type galaxies. This ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...

Scientists have found that supermassive black holes self-grow by regulating the cooling of surrounding hot gas, forming warm ...

Messier 87 (M87), also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo constellation. It is one ...

Astronomers discover evidence of massive black holes feeding themselves, revealing a complex cosmic cycle of gas cooling and ...

The image of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of massive elliptical galaxy M87, changed the world. It was the ...

A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest ...

In NASA's latest survey, experts detected black holes hidden behind thick clouds of gas and dust and others that are not. Their study, published in the Astrophysical Journal, found that around 35% of ...