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

The polarity of a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of M87, a galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, ...

Scientists spotted an enormous black hole in the early universe that's growing at 2.4 times the theoretical Eddington limit.

U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, have discovered an early universe supermassive black hole ...

Astronomers observed a unique gamma-ray burst outside the Milky Way, repeating over a day, unlike any known star-destruction event.

Astronomers have detected an explosion of gamma rays that repeated several times over the course of a day, an event unlike ...

A black hole’s bizarre "heartbeat" is forcing astronomers to reconsider how these cosmic heavyweights behave. Observations of IGR J17091-3624 — a black hole in a binary system roughly 28,000 ...

Another day, another incredible space discovery. Scientists studying the universe via NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered the oldest ever black hole - and it's absolutely massive. We've ...

It sounds like science fiction: a spacecraft, no heavier than a paperclip, propelled by a laser beam and hurtling through space at the speed of light toward a black hole, on a mission to probe the ...

Bill Smith receives funding from an NSF Research Trainee Grant called EMIT. Karan Jani is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. Krystal Ruiz-Rocha receives funding from an NSF research grant ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at black holes secretly snacking on stars within dusty galaxies. JWST’s ability to pick up detailed infrared signals lets it peer past the dust ...