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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

"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 ...

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