Smaller black holes tend to attract less material, making them naturally dimmer. Chandra would miss many of these faint ...

A supermassive black hole has been caught in the act of fleeing its home galaxy, racing through intergalactic space at ...

Scientists say they've spotted the first runaway supermassive black hole that's rocketing away from its home at a staggering speed.

Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...

Researchers are finding out more about a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, discovering that it has been leaking gases for several thousand years and is not the sleeping ...

Sagittarius A* flickers every hour, making it a challenging target for telescopes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The James Webb ...

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBH), if they exist, have between about 100 and 1,000 solar masses, placing them in between stellar black holes and supermassive black holes. But while there's plenty ...

A new study on some 1,600 galaxies based on data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that many small galaxies do not ...

An invisible monster lurks beyond the stars of the constellation Sagittarius near the border with Scorpius: a supermassive black hole, designated as Sagittarius A* (pronounced “Sagittarius A-star”), ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Space itself is scary enough—dark, vast, cold and empty—but galaxies have all manner of terrifying beasts lurking inside. Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, ...