The gas cloud, known as G2, is three times the mass of the Earth — which seems big until you consider the size of the black hole, which is 4 million times the mass of our sun. Unequal players ...

A black hole with a mass of 100,000 Suns may be holding a cloud of gas together. John Timmer – Sep 6, 2017 4:41 pm | 39 No, that's not an oddly shaped black hole.

A stray black hole may be responsible for turning a gas cloud into a speeding cosmic bullet trillions of miles long. The wandering black hole was discovered lurking just outside a supernova ...

New observations show for the first time a gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy. The cloud is now so stretched that its front part has passed the ...

How do you find something you can't see? Japanese astronomers have hunted a hidden black hole by observing the movement of a cloud of gas it is consuming, located 25,000 light-years away from Earth.

The black hole in the Milky Way galaxy is having a close encounter with a gas cloud. Get the latest tech news How to delete trackers Fitbit, Samsung or 🍎? Next update is here ...

In 2003, scientists discovered what seemed to be a cloud of gas, termed G2, which should collide in March or thereabouts with the supermassive black hole that lurks at the heart of the Milky Way.

The most plausible explanation involved a massive gas cloud being torn apart by the black holes. As the cloud’s gas interacts with the binary system, friction heats it, creating the observed ...

Recent observations from April this year of the galactic center have revealed that parts of the in-falling gas cloud, which was detected in 2011, have already swung past the black hole at the ...

"But how the black hole can power the gas cloud's heartbeat is unclear to us." Scientists being scientists, the team has already made a guess into why it's happening.

A stray black hole was found wandering from a dense cosmic gas cloud in our Milky Way galaxy and may help astronomers locate other elusive black holes in the future.