How Giant Stars May Create the Supermassive Black Holes at the Centres of GalaxiesAstronomers are rethinking how supermassive black holes formed so quickly after the Big Bang. New evidence suggests that either giant stars...
12 Feb, 2026, 04.09 PM IST
Scientists stunned by monster Black Hole blasting winds at 130 million MPH across spaceAstronomers have detected a supermassive black hole producing winds at unprecedented speeds. Situated 135 million light-years away in the N...
13 Dec, 2025, 07.03 PM IST
Scientists spot brightest record-breaking flare ever from a distant supermassive black holeScientists have captured the brightest flare ever recorded from a supermassive black hole, radiating as brilliantly as 10 trillion suns. Th...
04 Nov, 2025, 07.32 PM IST
Supermassive black hole, 6,00,000 times the mass of Sun, is heading towards the Milky Way. When is the collision likely to happen?Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of the Sun. The L...
14 Feb, 2025, 04.26 PM IST
James Webb Space Telescope detects monster black holes in early universe, linked to mysterious dark matterA recent study offers a new explanation for the rapid growth of supermassive black holes in the early universe, proposing that dark matter ...
07 Feb, 2025, 01.34 AM IST
Decoding Supermassive Black Holes: New Findings on Their Spin and GrowthRecent research suggests that supermassive black holes' spin rates, linked to their formation history, indicate growth primarily through st...
22 Jan, 2025, 12.28 AM IST
700 million Suns’ worth of power fired at Earth and it could destroy us? Here's what we knowAstronomers have uncovered the most distant blazar ever discovered, a supermassive black hole with a mass of 700 million suns, located 12.9...
17 Jan, 2025, 09.05 PM IST
Indian researchers discover three supermassive black holesThe rare occurrence in the nearby universe indicates that small merging groups are ideal laboratories to detect multiple accreting supermas...
27 Aug, 2021, 12.44 PM IST
Fastest growing black hole of the universe discoveredThe astronomers have looked back more than 12 billion years to the early dark ages of the universe, when this supermassive black hole was e...
16 May, 2018, 12.43 PM IST
- How supermassive black holes prevent star formation
London, Jan 10 (IANS) Scientists have found evidence that supermassive black holes prevent formation of stars in some smaller galaxies, in ...
10 Jan, 2018, 03.37 PM IST
- Astronomers spot elusive giant black hole couples
Washington, Oct 4 (IANS) Astronomers including one of Indian-origin have identified five pairs of supermassive black holes, each containing...
04 Oct, 2017, 11.52 AM IST
- Supermassive black holes can form tightly bound pairs: Study
Pune, Sep 19 (IANS) Supermassive black holes found in the centres of galaxies can form gravitationally bound pairs when galaxies merge, con...
19 Sep, 2017, 03.12 PM IST
- Astronomers discover orbiting supermassive black holes
San Francisco, June 28 (IANS) In what is being hailed as a "groundbreaking discovery", astronomers have for the first time observed two sup...
28 Jun, 2017, 03.22 PM IST
- Chinese space telescope to observe 'big eaters'
Beijing, May 29 (IANS) China's new space telescope will probe many mysteries of the universe, including the belching "big eaters" -- active...
29 May, 2017, 11.35 AM IST
Smallest supermassive black hole ever detectedAstronomers using NASA's X-ray Observatory have identified the smallest super-massive black hole ever detected in the centre of a galaxy.
12 Aug, 2015, 03.56 PM IST
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array satellite observatory discovers five 'supermassive' black holesHigh-energy x-rays found for five of the black holes confirmed that they had been hidden by dust and gas.
06 Jul, 2015, 01.12 PM IST
Indian scientist, Dr Manda Banerji discovers giant supermassive black holesCambridge researchers, led by an Indian-origin scientist, have discovered a new population of enormous, rapidly growing supermassive black ...
09 Oct, 2012, 10.49 PM IST