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

At that time, it began emitting radio waves at 60 times the previous intensity over just a few months, behavior which has never been monitored in real time for a supermassive black hole.

A black hole is a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape, formed from collapsed massive stars. Black holes form when massive stars collapse under their ...

“The launch of a black hole jet has never been observed before in real time,” she said. Meyer presented the findings at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, further exploring how ...

The team behind new research on the topic suggests that measuring whether gravitational waves from black hole mergers are right- or left-handed can tell us if the Cosmological Principle — an ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass ...

It's no secret that black holes are some of the weirdest objects in space. Their disks are fluffy like cake, and diving into one is both interesting and terrifying. Now, a group of astronomers ...

Essentially, her team witnessed the birth of jets from a supermassive black hole, in real time. Meyer is lead author on a paper outlining the discovery, published Jan. 13 in The Astrophysical ...

"Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive radio jet does not have an extreme black hole mass compared to other quasars." Astronomers have detected the largest black hole-launched jet ever ...