Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Discover how researchers found a bizarre black hole feeding at an exceptional rate, challenging theories on black hole growth ...

The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

"If our eyes were able to detect X-rays, the sky would be full of dots. And every single one of those dots would be an ...