Astronomers have recently made a breakthrough studying the supermassive black hole M87*, a behemoth six and a half billion ...

Researchers analyzing pulsar data have found tantalizing hints of ultra-slow gravitational waves. A team from Hirosaki ...

A hundred years before the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released the first image of a black hole in 2019—located at the heart of the galaxy M87—astronomer Heber Curtis had already discovered ...

This black hole spins rapidly, and its rotation powers a stream of charged particles that shoots out at nearly the speed of ...

Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...

Explore 10 breathtaking images of pink nebulae and supernovae captured by NASA, showcasing the beauty, mystery, and explosive power of our universe’s most spectacular cosmic events.

It may have been the first black hole imaged by humanity, but the eating habits of the supermassive black hole M87* aren't pretty. That is what astronomers discovered when assessing turbulence in the ...

Astronomers spotted the ultramassive black hole inside the Cosmic Horseshoe, an equally gargantuan galaxy so powerful that it bends light from distant galaxies. reading time 3 minutes The largest ...

Astronomers have identified what could be a new supermassive black hole, and with an estimated mass 36 billion times that of the sun, it has about 10,000 times the mass of the black hole at the center ...

A supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way galaxy is creating a light show that's intriguing astronomers. Flares of light have been observed in a disk orbiting the black hole Sagittarius ...

Black holes are dark, menacing objects with gravity so intense that not even light can escape, so you don’t want to mess with them. A recent discovery of one of the strangest supernovas ever observed ...