Supermassive black holes are the densest objects in the universe ... (That's almost six times the distance between the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy.) The largest jet discovered spans nearly 22 ...

Sgr A*, in turn, is dwarfed by some supermassive black holes detected in other large galaxies such as one with a mass 6.5 ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

But it turns out that this black hole only accelerated about half the stars. The other half got sped up in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is the closest galaxy to our own. (Han notes ...

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

The newfound galaxy ... experienced by Andromeda XXXV. To understand why, it is necessary to travel back in time to the the birth of the first galaxies. These stars and galaxies blasted out energy as ...

Until now, the closest known supermassive black hole from beyond the Milky Way was the one inside the Andromeda galaxy, about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. It is the nearest major galaxy to ...

It's as if the black hole basically hurled it out of the ... (Han notes that while many people think of Andromeda as the closest galaxy, it's actually the closest major galaxy.) ...