Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

in a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory release. “So if we didn’t have a supermassive black hole in our Milky Way galaxy, there might be many more stars in the sky. That’s just one example of ...

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

Black holes are among the most intriguing phenomena in our universe. From the pictures of our galaxy’s black hole ... Now, though, NASA has actually watched a black hole eat a star.

For the first time, researchers have found evidence that even microquasars with low-mass stars can efficiently accelerate ...

New research shows black holes can trigger gas cooling, creating fuel for their own feeding. This process keeps them growing ...

That’s just one example of how black holes can influence a galaxy’s evolution. According to NASA, “One possible mechanism for the formation of supermassive black holes involves a chain ...

These filaments then flow toward the black hole, feeding it, and the cycle repeats. Brightness Link: The brightness of the hot gas in the center of galaxy clusters is directly related to the ...

This discovery enhances the understanding of black holes' interactions with their environments and their role in galaxy evolution, facilitated by advanced imaging techniques from NASA and the VLT.

A comparison between the galaxy clusters Perseus and Centauru. The glowing white dots are black holes. | Credit: Perseus Cluster: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/V. Olivares et al.; Optical/IR: DSS ...