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

The main motivation for the new study was the fact that some of the supermassive black holes in the centre of the Milky Way ...

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

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

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 ...

"How and where particles are accelerated in the jets of supermassive black holes has been a long-standing mystery." ...

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 ...

Materials spiraling inward to the black hole are danced into paths along magnetic field lines ... During the 2018 acquisition, researchers reported fascinating asymmetries in the well-known ring of ...

Galactic Burp In 2018, astronomers took the first-ever picture of a black hole, a fascinating and unprecedented glimpse of an ...

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.