In OJ 287, located some 3.5 billion light-years away, the intricate, extreme interplay between the two central supermassive ...
On July 2, 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) captured around three hours' worth of signals that appeared ...
Deep in the core of most galaxies, hidden by spinning clouds of gas and dust, black holes spin like cosmic engines. These ...
Astronomers at Goethe University Frankfurt have made a breakthrough discovery regarding the supermassive black hole M87*.
A hundred years before the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released the first image of a black hole in 2019—located at ...
First-ever image of two black holes captured orbiting each other, confirming a decades-old theory using a powerful radio ...
Astronomers studying the supermassive black hole M87*, a behemoth six and a half billion times the mass of the Sun, have uncovered a new way these cosmic monsters unleash their power.
Most supermassive black holes don’t just swallow up matter, they eject it, sometimes in spectacular jets of super heated ...
For 50 years, astronomers have been searching for evidence of winds emanating from the black hole Sagittarius A*. Now, they ...
The largest of three newly found ring shaped structures in the cosmos are almost a million light-years across.
A newly discovered odd radio circle in space could serve as a time capsule for the violent events that shape galaxies.
Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black ...