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which is 55 million light years from Earth. More precisely, a picture of glowing gas that surrounds the black hole like a ring. From Earth, the ring appears to be only as large as a concert spotlight ...

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...

A massive, energetic jet from Virgo A could help scientists understand how matter behaves around a black hole.

Now, this same black hole is once again captivating scientists with an extraordinary gamma-ray flare that's emitted photons hundreds of billions of times more powerful than visible light. This intense ...

The jet emerging from M87’s supermassive black hole is tens of millions of times larger than its event horizon. In 2019, the ...

Because nothing, not even light, can escape a black hole ... the fabric of spacetime, making it ring like a bell. As the newly merged black hole settles into a more stable equilibrium, it twists ...

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

M87 was the first black hole to be imaged, and now it's revealing details of how some elementary particles are accelerated by the universe's most extreme environments.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Despite literally eating stars and being called black holes, black holes create some of ...

This supermassive black hole, at the heart of a quasar known as 3C 273, offers a unique view into the complex interplay of galactic forces billions of light-years away. Quasars are luminous ...

After taking the first images of black holes, the groundbreaking Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful jets into space. Now, a research team has shown that ...