Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...

"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...

By zeroing in on the infrared scale, researchers offer details of the black hole jet stream in faraway galaxy M87.

Nicknamed the “Black Hole” by the U.S. Navy for its extreme quietness, Russia’s Kilo-class submarine is one of history’s most ...

Supermassive black holes stand out for their fundamental role in the evolution of galaxies and the history of the universe.

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

A black hole far from its galactic center has unleashed the fastest, brightest radio flares ever seen from a star’s destruction. For the first time, astronomers have detected a tidal disruption event ...

Astronomers used the ALMA radio array in Chile to show that two narrow spiral arms are funneling gas toward the central ...

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, which swirls inward until it eventually vanishes into a gravitational ...

On July 2, 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) captured around three hours' worth of signals that appeared ...

Event Horizon Telescope data reveal the magnetic field around M87* shifted, weakened and then flipped, defying theoretical expectations.

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...