The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

A mysterious cosmic explosion, EP240408A, detected in 2023, may reveal a new black hole phenomenon. Scientists are ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

Twin jets erupt from a supermassive black hole in Draco, offering new insights into black hole activity and evolution.

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...

Recently, astronomers focused on a galaxy 270 million light years away, which hosts a supermassive black hole known as 1ES 1927+654. The black hole, researchers have now observed, has been ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

Astronomers have discovered a truly ancient monster: a radio jet 200,000 light-years wide, originating from when the universe ...

In a groundbreaking follow-up to their 2019 reveal of the first black hole image, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team has ...