Collaboration has achieved the highest-resolution Earth-based observations to date, detecting light at 345 GHz from the ...

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 ...

Twin jets erupt from a supermassive black hole in Draco, offering new insights into black hole activity and evolution.

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

A black hole is the result of the extreme compression of matter. The usual way we see this happening is in the explosion of giant stars at the ends of their lives. The collapse and subsequent ...

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic center.

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

Collaboration published the first image of a black hole, of M87* from the center of the galaxy M87. The measurement data on which the image was based was obtained in 2017. The EHT Collaboration has ...

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