A supermassive black hole churns at its center, surrounded by the “bulge,” a knot of stars containing some of the galaxy’s oldest stellar denizens.

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/the-milky-ways-stars-reveal-its-turbulent-past/

"At this wavelength, we can see how the jet emerges from the ring of emission around the central supermassive black hole," says Thomas Krichbaum of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-04-supermassive-black-hole-jet-picture.html

Dark matter, the nature of time and supermassive black holes are all among the unfathomable mysteries of the universe.

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“If you want to study supermassive black holes or galaxy clusters, you need high-energy resolution.”

Source: https://houstonianonline.com/on-monday-night-xrism-will-depart-into-space-the-telescope-that-will-capture-x-rays-of-the-universe/

It turns out that supermassive black holes in the closer, more recent universe are up to 20 times more massive than those in the more distant, early universe (relative to the mass of the stars around them).

Source: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/black-holes-are-accelerating-the-expansion-of-the-universe-say-cosmologists

It was observed being plundered by a supermassive black hole at the heart of a spiral-shaped galaxy.

Source: https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/black-hole-is-observed-snacking-on-sun-like-star-bite-by-bite/article67288060.ece

The two supermassive black holes identified in this study are true heavyweights: They clock in at 200 million and 125 million times the mass of our sun.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-01-doomed-pair-supermassive-black-holes.html

Those include determining the accretion disk's structure and the exact value of the M87 supermassive black hole's spin.

Source: https://hothardware.com/news/study-discovers-m87-black-hole-is-spinning

"Until now, the assumption has been that when we see the aftermath of a close encounter between a star and a supermassive black hole, the outcome will be fatal for the star, that is, the star is completely destroyed," he says.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-01-team-physicists-star-orbit-supermassive.html

While most very large black holes, called supermassive black holes, sit at the center of galaxies, occasionally these enormous beasts can be found wandering alone in the depths of space.

Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/space/oldest-black-hole-x-ray/