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

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

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

Using the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have detected the largest black hole jet ever seen in the early universe. It's twice as long as the Milky Way.

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

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

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

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

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

From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...

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 ...

From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers. The gas and dust falling into these black holes liberates an enormous amount ...