First Step on the Way to a Video of the Black Hole In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration made history by ...

Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes "have determined that a giant black hole has destroyed a ...

These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the Sun and are so dense that they warp ...

Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...

A new analysis of M87*, the first black hole imaged by humanity, has revealed turbulence in the matter around it, which this ...

In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the ...

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

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 ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...

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

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...