New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole ...

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

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Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

Astronomers have discovered a truly ancient monster: a radio jet 200,000 light-years wide, originating from when the universe ...

Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...

From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

New research shows black holes can trigger gas cooling, creating fuel for their own feeding. This process keeps them growing ...

For the first time, researchers have found evidence that even microquasars with low-mass stars can efficiently accelerate ...

Emerging in 2024 after a radio flare in 2023, the jets broke through dense gas near the black hole, which has a mass 1.4 billion times that of... M87*, the supermassive black hole in Messier 87 ...