The supermassive black hole is that first one that astronomers ever photographed. For more than a century, astronomers have marveled at the brilliant jet of matter blasting from the heart of the giant ...

Scientists have long been aware of the massive elliptical galaxy, M87. The galaxy was first observed in the late 18th century by Charles Messier, who cataloged objects in the sky specifically to avoid ...

New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could shed light on mysterious “little red dots” first spotted by the space observatory in 2022. In the latest observations, scientists have ...

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Could black holes help explain the origins of high-energy cosmic radiation? The universe is filled with many forms of radiation and particles that can be detected here on Earth. Among them are photons ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

Based on multi-year data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), the finding reveals a dynamic and unstable region just outside M87*’s event horizon. While the black hole’s shadow has remained ...

In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors recorded a gravitational wave that lasted just one-tenth of a second. The signal, known as ...

Images taken of the Universe's most photogenic black hole over time reveal strange and exciting changes in its magnetic field. Using observations obtained using the Event Horizon Telescope in 2017, ...

A supermassive black hole in the far reaches of the Universe has been found guzzling down material at one of the fastest rates ever seen. At the heart of a quasar galaxy called RACS J0320-35, just 920 ...