Space is already filled with plenty of mysteries, and black holes may be among the strangest. Here are some of the questions ...

What exists at the core of a black hole? A research team led by Enrico Rinaldi, a physicist at the University of Michigan, ...

In a groundbreaking follow-up to their 2019 reveal of the first black hole image, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team has ...

A new study shows that black holes consume gas which creates an outburst that cools nearby gas for the black hole to consume ...

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time Astronomers have discovered hundreds of hidden ...

“This would be the closest thing we know of around any black hole,” Megan Masterson, a graduate physics student in at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was part of a team that made ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in observations..

Black holes are ultra-dense objects with gravitational ... and a researcher at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, part of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, in a center ...

Kara and Masterson were part of the team that observed 1ES 1927+654 in 2018, as the black hole’s corona went dark, then slowly rebuilt itself over time. For a while, the newly reformed corona ...