"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...
NASA created a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years ...
Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...
Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...
In 2018, astronomers took the first-ever picture of a black hole, a fascinating and unprecedented glimpse of an event horizon. And as it turns out, the black hole — dubbed M87* and located some ...
Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the ...
Black holes are objects with an intense gravitational pull so strong that not even beams of light, the fastest things in the universe, can escape. This makes them impossible to see directly ...
The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...