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

A supermassive black hole 12.8 billion lights years from us has been discovered feasting at a rate that scientists describe ...

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

Newly released images of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87 show that the plasma that swirls around ...

Astronomy has just revealed a cosmic monster of unprecedented scale, a black hole so colossal that it pushes the boundaries of our understanding of the Universe. This major discovery, located at ...

An international team of astronomers led by Matus Rybak (Leiden University, Netherlands) has proven, thanks to accidental double zoom, that millimeter radiation is generated close to the core of a ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The most distant black hole ever confirmed has now been discovered. A team led by astronomers from the University of Texas at Austin announced the discovery of the black hole in the ...

A proposed interstellar mission envisions sending a gram-scale nanocraft, propelled by a laser-driven lightsail to a nearby black hole, achieving approximately one-third the speed of light. Upon ...

The deepest mysteries of the universe often begin with the biggest questions. Few are more puzzling than the birth of supermassive black holes. These giants, weighing millions to billions of times ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly ...