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 ...
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 ...
A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.
MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...
"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 ...
Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...
Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...
Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...