New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has ...

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the center of M87, revealing new details about its rotation and the ...

"Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive radio jet does not have an extreme black hole mass compared to other quasars." Astronomers have detected the largest black hole-launched jet ever ...

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as the result of a new form of "black hole archeology" that links black ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary research Sara Hashemi The energetic streams are together 23 million light ...

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye. Researchers studied data from the ...

Astronomers have found that the largest black holes in the universe don’t just consume matter—they also help create it. (Centaurus Cluster composite image.) Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/V. Olivaresi et ...