Black holes are infamous for being invisible. But thanks to a new technique from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team, ...

Located 15,000 light-years away in a region of the Milky Way brimming with stars, gas and dust, this object could be a highly ...

Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive black holes discovered yet. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada ; N. Risinger (skysurvey ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb discusses the hypothetical use of highly energetic events as a way to produce "gravitational-wave ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope have developed a new way to observe the radio sky at multiple frequencies, and ...

JWST has detected the earliest galaxies in the universe, but some look “more mature” than expected. Is it time to rethink how ...

Black holes continue to grip our imagination. These cosmic powerhouses twist space and time so intensely that even light ...

One galaxy uses a quasar like a cosmic weapon, blasting its opponent and halting star formation—an epic deep-space duel seen for the first time.

Scientists at NTNU propose that powerful winds from supermassive black holes may be responsible for mysterious ...

Supermassive black holes are some of the most powerful engines in the universe. These giants sit at the centers of galaxies, ...

Discover interesting facts about what black holes are, how they form and what would happen if you fell into one.