In 2020, astronomers identified a nearby star system that appeared to contain something phenomenal: the closest black hole to Earth! Now, new research from some of those same astronomers suggests that ...

Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...

Astrophysical jets from black holes play a key role in cosmic evolution, impacting star formation and revealing insights ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

The mapping project also made detailed observations of the associated accretion disks. Those are the areas nearest the black ...

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 ...

Researchers from the University of Arizona and Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany have now created the sharpest ...

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

Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.

“It is probably the closest object we’ve ever observed orbiting around a supermassive black hole. This is extremely close to the black hole’s event horizon,” said Megan Masterson, a ...