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 ...

"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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

Scientists have discovered the farthest-ever 'mini-halo,' a sea of charged particles around a distant galaxy cluster that ...

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 ...