Simulations suggest the early universe helped black holes grow big, but not in the long run

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

How Supermassive Black Holes Can Become Cosmic Nightmares

Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, such as explosive supernovae or ridiculously ...
Scientific American

Do We Live in a Haunted Galaxy?

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

Concern over Sagittarius A*: A supermassive black hole that lies dormant at the center of our galaxy and threatens to reactivate

It is no secret that at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, lies a supermassive black hole better known as Sagittarius A ...
New Scientist on MSN

A tiny nearby galaxy is home to a shockingly enormous black hole

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...
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Milky Way's central black hole may have scarfed down another black hole

A near-infrared view of the stars near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: ESO / S. Gillessen et al. Astronomers suspect the giant black hole at the heart of the Milky Way may have ...