Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Collaboration published the first image of a black hole, of M87* from the center of the galaxy M87. The measurement data on which the image was based was obtained in 2017. The EHT Collaboration has ...

Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...

For the first time, scientists witness a supermassive black hole releasing jets of material at immense speeds, offering a glimpse into jet formation and propagation in active galactic nuclei.

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...