The supermassive black hole resides about 55 million light-years away in the center of the nearby Messier 87 galaxy — also known as M87, according to the study. Scientists found the black hole's ...

An elusive type of black hole has been discovered in a neighboring galaxy for the first time, according to a new study based on observations from the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s ...

The first picture image of the black hole at in the M87 galaxy was released in 2019. Thanks to machine-learning tech, we now have a clearer look. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...

New image of M87 supermassive black hole generated by the PRIMO algorithm using 2017 EHT data Medeiros et al. 2023 That band is a "bright ring of emission" that, according to IAS, is ...

Picture a black hole so powerful that it swallows the equivalent of one sun every day.. Now imagine that black hole also has a mass that's 17 billion times larger than our sun. Scientists in ...

Now, new evidence confirms the object as a solitary black hole wandering just 5,000 light-years from us. The object is known as OGLE-2011-BLG-0462 and was first reported in 2022.

Astronomers have reportedly discovered the closest-known black hole to Earth. Named Gaia BH1, the dormant black hole is about 10 times more massive than the sun.

A group of researchers recently simulated the event horizon of a man-made black hole in a lab. The new analog could help us learn more about the elusive radiation that is believed to be emitted by ...

Despite this enormous size, the black hole is actually accreting–or eating–gas at a very low rate. According to the team, it is only accreting about 100 times below its theoretical maximum ...

A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating cylinder and magnetic coils. Studying the bomb could help us better ...

New research from a professor at the Kansas State University that used imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope gives credence to a scientific theory that says the Milky Way is inside of a ...

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.