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

How much does a black hole change in a year? Scientists may now have an idea, after taking a fresh look at the first-ever black hole to be imaged — the supermassive black hole M87*, , which ...

It's a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories each month. In the past, ...

The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has ...

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

Astrophysical jets from black holes play a key role in cosmic evolution, impacting star formation and revealing insights ...

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

The image of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of massive elliptical galaxy M87, changed the world. It was the ...

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

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

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