A supermassive black hole is the largest type of black hole, with its mass being on the order of hundreds of thousands, or millions to billions, of times the mass of the Sun. Black holes are a class o
The first direct image of a supermassive black hole, found in the galactic core of Messier 87.
An artist's conception of a supermassive black hole surrounded by an accretion disk and emitting a relativistic jet.
Artist's impression of the huge outflow ejected from the quasar SDSS J1106+1939
Artist's illustration of galaxy with jets from a supermassive black hole
The Phoenix Cluster is a massive, Abell-class type I galaxy cluster located at its namesake, southern constellation of Phoenix. It was initially detected in 2010 during a 2,500-square-degree survey of
Supermassive black hole
…large black holes (SLABs), with masses greater than 100 billion M☉, could exist based on used models; some studies place the black hole at the core of Phoenix A in this category. The story of how supermassive black holes were found began with the investigation by Maarten Schmidt of the radio source 3C 273 in…
The cluster in a composite image of X-ray and visible light. Large holes in the blue emission are two vast outer cavities. Smaller inner cavities are at top right and bottom left of the central galaxy.
DESI Legacy Surveys image of Phoenix A
Artist's depiction of the center of the Phoenix Cluster, showing the central black hole and its accretion disc that fuels two powerful jets emanating from the nucleus