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

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

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 resides at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy.

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

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 ...

The project would not have its heyday like this without her contribution. This is the black hole at the heart of the Messier 87 Galaxy, 55 million light years away from the earth and 6.5 billion times ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Unusual detection bolsters evidence that the mysterious signals can be caused by different astrophysical events.

As light from the early universe travels through space, it gets bent and warped by massive structures like galaxy clusters. By analyzing this bending, scientists can infer how matter is ...