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 ...

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

Gravitational wave observations have revolutionized our understanding of black holes, revealing crucial details about their ...

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 ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.