"The key result is that while many alternatives look very similar to the 'standard' black hole at today's image quality, the ...

At the center of a galaxy 10 billion light-years away, a supermassive black hole is the new record holder for brightest flare ...

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

This illustration depicts two black holes colliding in space. The collision sends gravitational waves, ripples in the curvature of spacetime, radiating through space. These waves can be detected by ...

Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns ...

Illustration of the highest-resolution detections ever made from the surface of Earth ESO/M. Kornmesser The Event Horizon Telescope project, the group that took the first-ever image of a black hole, ...

Scientists may have found "the most hellish place in the Universe" after discovering the fastest black hole on record. The team from the Australian National University, led by associate professor ...

Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering through a galaxy with an even larger black hole at its core. The event, dubbed ...

The strong gravity of the black hole (shown as a small black dot at the center of the disk on the right) pulls gas from the companion star (left). As the gas spirals inward, it forms a ...

A supermassive black hole, several million solar masses, has been discovered at the center of the GN-z11 galaxy, existing approximately 400 million years post-Big Bang. The black hole's accretion disk ...

The black holes in orbit around each other. Both black holes have jets associated with them: the larger one with reddish colour, and the smaller one with a yellowish colour jet. Normally only the ...