M87* is a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 55 million light-years away with a mass around 6.5 billion times the mass of ...

New observations of M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, revealed that the supermassive blackhole has experienced several ...

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

A series of observations between 2017 and 2021 suggest the supermassive structure’s magnetized plasma is more dynamic than ...

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

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Spacetime ripples from a black hole collision across the cosmos have confirmed weird aspects of black hole physics ...

After taking the first images of black holes, the groundbreaking Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful jets into space. Now, a research team has shown that ...

SAN DIEGO — Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to study some of the darkest black holes yet observed. Their work strongly confirms the reality of the "event horizon," the one-way ...

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The short answer is yes: When two black holes merge, the resulting black hole has both more mass and a larger diameter. How much bigger? Let’s find out! When astronomers talk about the size of a black ...