“This is the first time we have a highly refined census of black holes growing by consuming interstellar material surrounding them.” He added: “If we didn’t have a supermassive black ...

That has never been observed around a supermassive black hole before.” A paper reporting the results, co-authored by Masterson, Meyer and others, was posted to the preprint server arXiv.org in ...

Recently, astronomers focused on a galaxy 270 million light years away, which hosts a supermassive black hole known as 1ES 1927+654. The black hole, researchers have now observed, has been ...

The universe could be home to far more supermassive black holes than we realised, according to new research. Many of them are hidden beyond our view, the researchers suggest – which might mean ...

As far as supermassive black holes go, the one at the center of the Milky Way is relatively sedate. But, even in its supposed quiescent state, Sagittarius A* is prone to the occasional belch or ...

Expect the unexpected In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. (Courtesy: ...

And every single one of those dots would be an accreting supermassive black hole." The universe could be packed with many more monstrous black holes ravenously feeding on their surrounding ...

A new type of observation reveals what makes the cores of active galaxies glow. Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are supermassive black holes at the centre of certain galaxies. When these black holes ...

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew so big in such a short timescale." Astronomers have discovered a ...

“This is the first time we have a highly refined census of black holes growing by consuming interstellar material surrounding ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that may have helped "turn on the lights" in the early universe The intense brightening and dimming of this quasar was observed ...

That's the conclusion of a team of scientists, who theorize that astronomers could be missing between 30% to 50% of feeding supermassive black holes, cosmic titans that have masses equivalent to ...