By looking at radio waves and X-ray emissions, a team of physicists has found the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* to be spinning— and altering space-time around it.

The event horizon is a boundary that marks the outer edge of black holes. It is the point at which nothing, not even light, can escape.

One of my favorite celestial objects in the universe is the black hole. Granted, I'm an astrophysicist. But I know I'm not alone. People love black holes. They seem to hold a near-mythic status in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long flares as well as short flashes every day.

The historic image of the supermassive black hole was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and released in April 2019. The image does not actually show a black hole, which are known for ...

The type of black hole that’s sitting in the center of a galaxy is different. This is a supermassive black hole, or SMBH, and — as its name implies — it’s much heftier.

But the black hole in VFTS 243 appears to have collapsed without exploding at all. A curiosity, but not without precedent. "In the last 10 years or so, ...

Recent measurements1,2,3,4 of the velocities of stars near the centre of the Milky Way have provided the strongest evidence for the presence of a supermassive black hole in a galaxy5, but the ...

They found that a black hole formed through the direct collapse of a gas cloud would need to feed at the Eddington Limit for its entire history to reach the mass of the one in UHZ1.

Astronomers have seen the largest jets ever found erupting from a black hole. The giant jet system Porphyrion is 23 million light-years long, equal to 140 side-by-side Milky Way galaxies.

A black hole 10 billion light-years away suddenly 'switched on', becoming one of the brightest transient objects ever detected. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...