Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful ...

Related: The 1st photo of the Milky Way's monster black hole explained in images What do black holes ... Another study that year showed that a cool gas halo surrounds Sagittarius A*, which gives ...

Both images were produced using Chandra ... The team's findings may have significance beyond black hole feeding mechanisms, too. That's because cool filaments of gas are thought to supply the ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...

The sharpest images yet of a supermassive black hole have been captured by University of Arizona astronomers at the Steward Observatory. The team described how they captured the infrared image of ...

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process. Anyone who has experienced the blistering pain associated with biting ...