Tag: supermassive black holes

• Our backyard black hole (Science Advent 9)

  (Every day until December 25, I’m posting a science-related image and description.) Day 9 Nearly every large galaxy — a category including our Milky Way — harbors a black hole at its heart. These black holes are supermassive, weighing in at millions or billions of times the mass of the Sun. Their growth and evolution…

  Matthew R. Francis

  December 9, 2013

  Astronomy

  Advent 2013, black holes, Milky Way, supermassive black holes