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

NASA plans to fly two rockets through active auroras and study the unique ribbons of light that dance across the Alaskan ...

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

A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.

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

The Westminster College Planetarium will host four new shows this spring.

Early data of “little red dots,” or LRDs, from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appeared to suggest the presence of ...

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

Rethinking the Underlying Trigger of Quasar Jets Building on the groundbreaking 2020 discovery of newborn jets in several ...

Astronomers have warned that billions of black holes are consuming "hidden" matter in the universe. Experts identified these ...

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

Infrared observations help astronomers uncover hundreds of obscured supermassive black holes, reshaping cosmic understanding.