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NASA X-ray spacecraft reveals the shockingly violent history of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole

By Robert Lea Published 8 January 26

"Nothing in my professional training as an X-ray astronomer had prepared me for something like this."

This supermassive black hole flung out matter at 134 million mph: 'On a scale almost too big to imagine'

By Kiona N. Smith Published 9 December 25

In other words, the matter traveled at 20% the speed of light.

James Webb Space Telescope watches our Milky Way galaxy's monster black hole fire out a flare

By Robert Lea Published 28 November 25

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ground-based observations at this wavelength."

Scientists detect biggest black hole flare ever seen — with the power of 10 trillion suns

By Robert Lea Published 4 November 25

Astronomers have detected the most distant and biggest black hole flare ever seen, the result of a black hole ripping apart and devouring a star 30 times as massive as the sun.

Why Do Supermassive Black Holes Erupt?

By Mike Wall Published 29 October 15

Milky Way's Monster Black Hole Belches Big, But Why?

By Calla Cofield Published 26 October 15