The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has ...
In observations conducted between April 5 and April 10, 2017, the team looked at the relativistic jet produced by OJ 287, a ...
Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to date, providing the clearest ...
For the first time, a shockwave propagating inside the jet of a celestial object presumed to be a pair of orbiting ...
The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...
Black holes are not cosmic vacuum cleaners. They are among the universe’s most extreme objects - and come in different sizes.
The black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy is 1000 times more massive than Sagittarius A*. Watch views of both captured ...
The Virgo cluster, despite being millions of light-years away, closest large galaxy cluster to Earth. The Virgo galaxy ...
Scientists have uncovered an unexpected breakdown of nuclear order in a remarkably symmetric atom, challenging long-standing ...
Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole in its core. Whether the black hole forms first and then the galaxy around ...
The system is known as J1218/1219+1035, and is located 1.2 billion light-years from us. The three nuclei of the three ...
A UK-based research project, TomoGrav, will produce the first 3D movies of black holes, mapping plasma flows and gravity in real time using advanced AI and global telescope networks.