Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...
A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...
In a groundbreaking follow-up to their 2019 reveal of the first black hole image, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team has ...
The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass ...
After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.
An artist's conception of a black hole's corona, which are the pale swirls above and below the black hole. Credit: NASA / Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State Univ.) A strange black hole is making ...
Black holes aren't just gorging themselves on whatever cosmic material is readily available—they're preparing those meals for themselves. Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that ...
An artist's concept of the supermassive black hole's mid-infrared flare. Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the ...