M87’s black hole, located approximately 55 million light-years away in the Virgo Cluster, became a household name in 2019 when it was immortalized in the first-ever photograph of a black hole by ...

Now, the EHT has shown that a year after the iconic photo, M87* had changed. In the 12 months between observations, the brightest region around the supermassive black hole has shifted. This ...

While sifting out signatures of supernova remnants, a high-schooler stumbled upon the afterglow of a dormant black hole. It ...

Greek astronomer Dimitrios Psaltis was instrumental in the gigantic effort to take mankind's first-ever image of a black hole ...

"I think that the simplest explanation of the rotating universe is the universe was born in a rotating black hole." Without a doubt, since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...

Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could make sense of that. Ultra-self-interacting dark matter clumped into ...

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A petition on Change.org asks to name the first-ever black hole photographed earlier in the week after Chris Cornell.

A Kansas University expert has outlined why he believes images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope provide evidence the ...

The team, led by MIT astronomer Megan Masterson, suggests that these pulses may originate from a white dwarf star, a dense remnant of a dead star, that is perilously orbiting near the black hole's ...

A new James Webb Space Telescope study finds that Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central black hole, constantly emits light from its swirling accretion disk. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf ...