Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

New data reveals black hole jets can accelerate at speeds defying all physical laws, leaving astronomers without a clear ...

Hubble’s new view of NGC 4102 exposes the soft glow of a supermassive black hole hidden behind dense gas. The galaxy’s delicate spiral structure contrasts with the quiet activity unfolding at its core ...

At the center of a galaxy 10 billion light-years away, a supermassive black hole is the new record holder for brightest flare ...

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...

Four lasers were directed into the skies above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal facility in Chile. Each ...

Monster black holes entered the cosmic scene soon after the Universe’s birth and grew rapidly, reaching millions or even ...

An international team, spearheaded by Prof. Luciano Rezzolla at the Goethe-Universität, has invented a novel approach to ...

XRISM’s observations of GX13+1 revealed a slow, fog-like wind instead of the expected high-speed blast, challenging existing models of radiation-driven outflows. The discovery hints that temperature ...

Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed ...

Last week, four lasers were projected into the skies above the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Paranal site in Chile.