A new image of M87 shows and confirms for the first time the feeding ring and jet of its supermassive black hole.

The discovery of a hidden supermassive black hole inside an ancient galaxy suggests that some of our universe's most extreme objects could be invisible unless observed in infrared wavelengths, James ...

When black holes collide, the impact radiates into space like the sound of a bell in the form of gravitational waves. But ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a fleeting, spectral flash from the Milky Way’s central black hole, a signal that cuts through dust and distance to reveal fresh detail about one of the ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Black holes usually form from stars that burn out and collapse in on themselves, but that cannot explain the red spark of light that could be a ...

Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed “Superman,” the flare originated 10 billion light-years from Earth, and at its peak, ...

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