A new image of M87 shows and confirms for the first time the feeding ring and jet of its supermassive black hole.

A research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with other researchers, has developed a new method to estimate how stellar-mass compact objects ...

In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion light-years away. The enormous masses and extreme spins of the black holes ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed two large spiral arms of gas actively funneling material into a supermassive black hole (SMBH), providing a detailed look at its feeding mechanism. Using ...

The magnetic field swirling around an enormous black hole, located about 55 million light-years from Earth, has unexpectedly switched directions. This dramatic reversal challenges theories of black ...

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A black hole is an object so massive that it warps the fabric of space-time, and its gravity is so strong that not even light can escape from it. Thug attacks retired US cop and bar girl to dodge bill ...

A supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way galaxy is creating a light show that’s intriguing astronomers. Flares of light have been observed in a disk orbiting the black hole Sagittarius ...

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How did supermassive black holes end up at the center of every galaxy? A while back, it wasn’t that hard to explain: That’s where the highest concentration of matter is, and the black holes had ...