NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.

How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 billion times the mass of the sun.

An artist’s illustration of the gargantuan black hole jets spewing into the early universe. | Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick Astronomers have discovered a black hole jet that erupted into ...

"This discovery challenges the common belief that black holes formed in star clusters always have randomly distributed spins." "Roses are red. Violets are blue. Your event horizon means I can't ...

“This seems to indicate that you don’t necessarily need an exceptionally massive black hole … to generate such powerful jets in the early Universe,” Gloudemans said in a statemen ...

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Giant radio galaxies resemble ‘cosmic fountains’ – jets of superheated gas that are ejected into near-empty space from their spinning supermassive black holes ... in the universe to observe ...

Related: Black holes could be driving the expansion of the universe, new study suggests This caught Gloudemans' attention, prompting her and her colleagues to conduct follow-up observations. This ...

the team studied the dark matter content of two supermassive black holes from the early universe. The research included contributions from Professor John Silverman (Kavli IPMU), Dr. Seiji ...

Dark Energy 'Doesn't Exist' So Can't Be Pushing 'Lumpy' Universe Apart Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers ...

Scream 6 wasn’t intended as a closing chapter, but it’s likely to be the last time that either Melissa Barrera or Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) play scream queens in this universe. Barrera and ...