There are large black holes at the center of just about every major galaxy, including our own. In 2022, an image was released ...

Using the NASA space telescopes Hubble and Chandra astronomers have discovered a strange black hole that has been knocked on ...

The researchers found that the emitted dark matter would ring space-time like a bell around the black hole. It would not be as strong of a signal as the ones that come from black hole mergers ...

TBIRD, a laser communications system developed by Lincoln Laboratory, transmits data at unprecedented speeds, enabling scientists to capture black holes' elusive photon rings. The Event Horizon ...

Scientists observed M87’s first gamma-ray flare in a decade, revealing insights into its supermassive black hole and ...

But there are key distinctions. "Because Sagittarius A* is a much smaller black hole - it's around a thousand times smaller - its ring structure changes on timescales that are a thousand times ...

When you stare for long enough into the heart of a galaxy to try to catch a glimpse of the black hole that lurks therein, ...

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center ...

showed a dusty ring of material at the heart of NGC 5084, turning on its side. This indicated not only a black hole lurking at the center of this galaxy but that object was bizarrely rotated at a ...

And as it does so, the region of brightness seen in the black hole's encircling ring of gas appears to wobble. "What we see is the flow of matter swirling around and ultimately plunging over the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Imagine the formation of a black hole and you’ll probably envision a massive star running out of fuel and collapsing in on itself. Yet the chaotic conditions of the early universe may ...