Messier 87 (M87), also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo constellation. It is one ...

Black holes are as dangerous as they are distant, so scientists set out to simulate one in a lab. What happened next would ...

Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black ... making it the largest recorded stellar black hole in the Milky Way ...

Furthermore, black holes’ influence can extend far beyond the galaxies in which they reside. Last year, a team of astrophysicists identified the largest-known black hole jets—streams of ...

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

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

known as the corona, vanished and then reappeared. This was something astronomers had never seen happen around a black hole before. Things got even stranger when the MIT team spotted bursts of X ...

NASA created a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away. The black hole is at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, ...

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

Astronomers have observed a spectacular cosmic event where a massive black hole is disrupting two celestial objects, one of which was a star.