The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

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Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

First images of Milky Way’s black hole released 02:13. The iconic 2019 image of a supermassive black hole that has since been dubbed the "orange donut" has gotten a makeover.

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

That now iconic fuzzy orange photo showcased a supermassive black hole at the heart of a mammoth galaxy called Messier 87, or M87, which is located 55 million light-years from Earth.

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Supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* is spinning nearly as fast as it can, dragging the very fabric of space-time with it and shaping the heart of the Milky Way. Skip to main content.