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

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration" according to the European Southern Observatory. The ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, first proposed by Albert Einstein 110 ...

Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

A remarkable black hole, located 270 million light-years away in the Draco constellation, has become the center of ...

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.

Long before anyone had heard the phrase “prestige television,” David pushed the boundaries of cinematic television with the series Twin Peaks, which debuted in 1990. The show followed Kyle MacLachlan, ...

Studies of black hole impacts on galaxies shed light on how stars and planets form, which ultimately relates to the conditions that allow life to emerge. Rethinking early black hole growth patterns ...