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

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

Deep in the core of most galaxies, hidden by spinning clouds of gas and dust, black holes spin like cosmic engines. These ...

On July 2, 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) captured around three hours' worth of signals that appeared ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

Astronomers studying the supermassive black hole M87*, a behemoth six and a half billion times the mass of the Sun, have uncovered a new way these cosmic monsters unleash their power.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a ...

Astronomers at Goethe University Frankfurt have made a breakthrough discovery regarding the supermassive black hole M87*. Their findings, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, challenge ...

Astronomers used the ALMA radio array in Chile to show that two narrow spiral arms are funneling gas toward the central ...

New AI-enhanced images of Sgr A*, showing that our galaxy's black hole spins rapidly and tilts slightly toward Earth.

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

When two black holes meet, they are drawn to one another by way of their enormous gravity, initiating a powerful orbital ...