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

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

The Milky Way hosts its own supermassive black hole at its center known as Sagittarius A* (pronounced “ay star”) that is more than four million times as massive as our sun. The tiniest members ...

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

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 ...

Even though this black hole is bigger than most, the biggest black hole in the known universe is a lesser object called TON 618. Astronomers spotted an ultramassive black hole nearly 700 million ...

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

Stellar black holes form from the collapse of massive stars and are smaller than supermassive black holes. Gaia BH3, categorized as a "dormant" black hole, emits no X-rays due to its distance from ...

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 ...

The black hole in question is 1ES 1927+654, located around 270 million light-years from Earth, with a mass around 1.4 billion times that of the sun. 1ES 1927+654 first announced its weirdness to ...