Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

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

The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Nick Hague and Suni Williams spent six hours working on NICER, AMS and other equipment outside the International Space ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

For the first time, NASA Chandra X-ray telescope has been used to discover a pair of black holes in dwarf galaxies that are ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...

Astronomers have warned that billions of black holes are consuming "hidden" matter in the universe.