Whenever someone talks about black holes, they almost always talk about the event horizon and the singularity. After all, ...

The Event Horizon Telescope only recently gave us the first images of the environment immediately surrounding a black hole.

Researchers are using black hole “shadow” images to test whether Einstein’s relativity remains unshakable. With ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most advanced telescope ever constructed, designed for operation in deep space, approximately 1.5 million miles from Earth. The orbital observatory ...

A giant star that is still being consumed by a supermassive black hole may have caused the largest flare of its kind ever seen, astronomers say.

Black holes are considered cosmic gluttons, from which not even light can escape. That is also why the images of black holes ...

New observations of M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, revealed that the supermassive blackhole has experienced several magnetic flips in the last decade. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes In ...

The first black hole images stunned the world in 2019, with headlines announcing evidence of a glowing doughnut-shaped object from the center of galaxy Messier 87 (M87 —55 million light years from ...

In this handout photo provided by the National Science Foundation, the Event Horizon Telescope captures a black hole at the center of galaxy M87 in an image released on April 10, 2019. (Photo by ...

A supermassive black hole lurking at the center of M87, a supergiant galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, is acting far more strangely than anticipated. Since 2017, astronomers from the Event ...

Astronomers have detected the most distant and biggest black hole flare ever seen, the result of a black hole ripping apart ...