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

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

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Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...

Narrator: Black holes skirt the line between science fiction and science ... at the edge of a black hole — a place called the event horizon, where no spacecraft has ever gone.

such as the next generation Very Large Array in New Mexico or the next generation Event Horizon Telescope, an expanded version of EHT that astronomers hope will capture not just images but also videos ...

Size comparison of the two black holes imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT ... the black hole swirling around magnetic field lines to create a distinct pattern. The observations were ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually increasing in frequency that seem to be coming from a white dwarf - a ...

and some of the plasma is spat out in jets collimated by the black hole's powerful magnetic field before that plasma gets ...