"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.

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 ...

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

Newfound clouds of gas that stream from gigantic black holes may dictate the pace of star formation in the galaxies around them and the growth of the black holes themselves, according to a new study.

X7 was classed as a G object, a group of oddball blobs of gas that orbit the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) at the center of the Milky Way that act like gas clouds when far from ...

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.

For now, it seems these black holes don’t just get gas from what they eat—they eat the gas itself. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024. DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451305 ...

A collaborative team of Japanese scientists led by Keio University have analyzed data from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope to examine a molecular cloud, which the researchers have nicknamed the ...

A distant supermassive black hole, PG1211+143, is consuming surrounding matter so rapidly it's expelling excess mass at nearly a third of light speed.

A distant supermassive black hole has stunned astronomers by expelling matter at speeds nearing a third of light velocity after consuming material at an extreme rate. Designated PG1211+143, this ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is making waves again, this time for a snapshot of a spiral galaxy located 250 million light-years ...