In the heart of the Milky Way is a black hole millions of times more massive than our sun, but does that mean we're destined ...

In 2017, the EHT collaboration yielded the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Messier 87 ...

The iconic image of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87 has received its first official makeover, thanks to a new machine-learning technique known as PRIMO. This new image better ...

How much does a black hole change in a year? Scientists may now have an idea, after taking a fresh look at the first-ever black hole to be imaged — the supermassive black hole M87*, , which resides at ...

In 2017, astronomers captured the first image of a black hole by coordinating radio dishes around the world to act as a single, planet-sized telescope. The synchronized network, known collectively as ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

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Astronomers announced Wednesday that at last they had observed the unobserveable: a black hole, a cosmic abyss so deep and dense that not even light can escape it. D Dennis Overbye Follow “We have ...

Astronomers have shown that the black hole in Messier 87 is propelling particles faster than 99% of the speed of light using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The black hole in Messier 87, or M87, ...

"There is a lot of debate as to how active galactic nuclei transfer energy into their surroundings. We did not expect to see radio jets do this sort of damage. And yet here it is!" When you purchase ...