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 ...
A new analysis of M87*, the first black hole imaged by humanity, has revealed turbulence in the matter around it, which this ...
Twin jets erupt from a supermassive black hole in Draco, offering new insights into black hole activity and evolution.
In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic center.
Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...
Collaboration has achieved the highest-resolution Earth-based observations to date, detecting light at 345 GHz from the ...
In some galaxies, large amounts of interstellar gas are spiralling around the super massive black hole and getting pulled in ...
"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...
The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...
Researchers in South Korea are developing a constellation of satellites that could reveal what goes on in the vicinity of supermassive black holes like never before.
In pursuit of understanding these celestial bodies, astronomers have stumbled upon a supermassive black hole, located a whopping 12.9 billion light-years from Earth, and it's doing something ...