Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...
Just when you think you understand black holes, the James Webb Space Telescope goes and discovers something that no one has ...
Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...
At the center of a galaxy 10 billion light-years away, a supermassive black hole is the new record holder for brightest flare ...
Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed “Superman,” the flare originated 10 billion light-years from Earth, and at its peak, ...
The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...
The EHT captured a surprising polarization reversal around M87*, pointing to rapidly changing magnetic fields near the black ...
Astronomers caught a rogue black hole tearing apart a star 2,600 light-years from its galaxy’s center — a first-of-its-kind cosmic event.
Tracking down black holes at the center of dwarf galaxies has proven difficult. In part it is because they have a tendency to ...