"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 ...

First Step on the Way to a Video of the Black Hole In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration made history by ...

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

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a cluster of stellar-mass black holes. New research may have delivered bad ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have a new candidate in their search for the nearest black hole to Earth. It's about 1,000 light-years away, or roughly 9.5 thousand, million, million km, in the Constellation Telescopium.