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

A new analysis of M87*, the first black hole imaged by humanity, has revealed turbulence in the matter around it, which this ...

In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...

In December 2022, less than six months after commencing science operations, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed ...

The universe could be home to far more supermassive black holes than we realised, according to new research. Many of them are ...

A mysterious black hole has started behaving even more strangely, scientists have said. The supermassive black hole has been ...

They have uncovered evidence that points to a massive black hole that spent ages in a “quiet” phase when everything around it in the early universe roared with activity. Scientists studying cosmic ...

Simulation of two colliding supermassive black holes emitting gravitational waves that could be detected with this novel method. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks. In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study ...