The EHT captured a surprising polarization reversal around M87*, pointing to rapidly changing magnetic fields near the black ...

ESA's Gaia mission has discovered the closest and 2nd closest black holes to Earth found yet. In this animation, travel to ...

The concept of creating a black hole on Earth - The implications of jumping into a hole through the Earth - Insights about ...

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

Astronomers suspect that in the first second after the universe formed, the very first black holes also formed. These tiny though profoundly dense objects — think of an atom-sized particle wielding ...

Even though the black hole in the galactic core is millions of times bigger than the sun, you don't have to worry about ...

An international collaboration of physicists including researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has made ...

Astronomers have discovered the closest black hole to Earth. It's so close that its sister stars can be seen with the naked eye. Wednesday's announcement backs up the theory that there are lots of ...

The trip took place in July 2024 and took 6 days. Over that time, the flying observatory looked at two main sources: the Crab ...

In a major leap forward, scientists, using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), have captured the sharpest images yet of distant galactic centers. Using light at a frequency of 345 GHz, they’ve peered ...

Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed “Superman,” the flare originated 10 billion light-years from Earth, and at its peak, ...