Using the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have detected the largest black hole jet ever seen in the early universe. It's ...

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.

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

"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...

Rapid X-ray oscillations detected near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole could indicate the presence of a nearby orbiter such as a white dwarf ...

Black holes are ultra-dense objects with gravitational fields so fierce that not even light can escape their bounds beyond a point called the ... black hole’s accretion disk—the superheated ...

As matter orbits outside the event horizon, it gradually heats up, creating a disk of glowing material around the black hole called an ... ultraviolet (UV) light. The accretion disk’s UV ...

A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...

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

Such changes, called millihertz quasiperiodic oscillations, are difficult to detect around supermassive ... an object orbiting within the black hole's accretion disk. In this scenario, each ...

Having previously observed the bright halo of matter whipping around the black hole at near-light-speeds ... The way this "accretion disk" of infalling matter spins can tell scientists a lot ...