Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...

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

The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...

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

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen Hawking in 1976—which posits that black holes destroy information. That ...

A mysterious black hole has started behaving even more strangely, scientists have said. The supermassive black hole has been ...

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 ...

The universe could be home to far more supermassive black holes than we realised, according to new research. Many of them are ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...

International astronomers have discovered new features in a supermassive black hole in galaxy 1ES 1927+654, located 270 ...