Astronomers have been astounded by the discovery of a rogue black hole that has emitted an unprecedented radio blast, marking ...

"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...

The giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), in the constellation Virgo, possesses near its center a supermassive black hole ...

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of ...

The team examined an ancient quasar which they described as “a galaxy with a black hole so old and bright it looks like a cosmic beacon from the dawn of time”. Their study showed that the quasar had a ...

At the Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan, Professor Albert Kong led an international research team that identified NGC 6099 HLX-1 as a strong candidate for an ...

Event Horizon Telescope data reveal the magnetic field around M87* shifted, weakened and then flipped, defying theoretical expectations.

A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a ...

UCLA astronomers report the discovery of a remarkable star that orbits the enormous black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy in a blistering 11.5 years — the shortest known orbit of any star ...