Supermassive Black Hole

Black Hole Study Shows What Supermassive Monsters 'Eat' To Get So Big

Posted 04.06.2012

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 04/06/2012 09:44 AM EDT on SPACE.com The supermassive black holes thought to lurk at the heart of most galaxies ...

Giant Black Hole May Be Eating Asteroids At Milky Way's Center

Posted 02.10.2012

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 02/09/2012 01:34 PM EST on SPACE.com The gigantic black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy may be devourin...

WATCH: Did A 'Supermassive' Blackhole Eruption Cause These Huge Gamma Ray Bubbles?

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Scientists surveying the skies using NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope have discovered two bubble-like structures apparently emanating from the c...

Cosmic 'Ghost': Evidence of a Supermassive Black Hole Equal in Power to a Billion Supernovas

The Daily Galaxy | Casey Kazan | Posted 05.25.2011

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory located a cosmic "ghost" that scientists think is evidence of a huge eruption produced by a supermassive black hole e...

Large Hadron Collider is Either the Greenest or the Least Green Experiment Ever Made

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 05.25.2011

Mairi Beautyman

Someone hit a switch today and began either the greenest or one of the most environmentally disastrous experiments in the world: The Large Hadron Coll...

Caught On Tape: Jet From Supermassive Black Hole Seen Blasting Neighboring Galaxy

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011

The latest act of senseless violence caught on tape is cosmic in scope: A black hole in a "death star galaxy" blasting a neighboring galaxy with a dea...