Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...

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

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

Twin jets erupt from a supermassive black hole in Draco, offering new insights into black hole activity and evolution.

This suggests that NGC 5084 is host to a supermassive black hole tipped on its side, and scientists think it could be evidence of a galactic collision in NGC 5084’s recent past.

Black holes don’t have many identifying features. They come in one colour (black) and one shape (spherical). The main difference between black holes is mass: some weigh about as much as a star ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

According to NASA, "there are hundreds of them"—massive black holes roaming space. It is now emerging and reshaping the ...

"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that black holes can cool gas to the proper temperature for a cosmic feast.