Astronomers have long debated the role of galaxy mergers in powering active supermassive black holes. Now an unprecedented dataset of a million galaxies from the Euclid telescope provides evidence ...

Stellar-mass black holes, formed from single star deaths, have masses of 2 to 100 solar masses and their post-explosion trajectories are random, not necessarily leading them to galactic centers.

In a new study, scientists from Canada have proposed a solution to the final parsec problem of supermassive black hole (SMBH) mergers using self-interacting dark matter. When two galaxies merge, gas ...

Supermassive black holes (SMBH) are now believed to be present in the centers of most, if not all, large galaxies. During growth phases, SMBH are observed as active galactic nuclei (AGN); the SMBH ...

Arxiv – Researchers describe a new system for a society of highly advanced civilizations around a super massive black hole (SMBH), as an advanced Type III “Dyson Sphere,” pointing out an efficient ...

Using NASA’s super-sensitive Chandra X-ray space telescope, a team of astronomers led by Q. Daniel Wang at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has solved a long-standing mystery about why most ...

The easiest way to spot a supermassive black hole (SMBH) is when it expels a huge jet of matter in one of the most energetic displays in the Universe. While astronomers have spotted these huge black ...

At the center of nearly every large galaxy lies a supermassive black hole (SMBH), millions or billions of times more massive than the Sun. Not every SMBH needs to be associated with a galaxy, ...

Cody Cottier is a freelance journalist for Discover Magazine, who frequently covers new scientific studies about animal behavior, human evolution, consciousness, astrophysics, and the environment.