Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this ...

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

A mysterious black hole has started behaving even more strangely, scientists have said. The supermassive black hole has been ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...