Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...

From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

Black holes are famous for being insatiable concentrations of gravity from which not even light can escape. And if they floated through space all on their lonesome, it might be the end of the story.

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time Astronomers ... and was the first space telescope to ...

By studying the fastest jet ever seen erupting from an infant star, astronomers have discovered that the mechanism that ...

This isn't the first time scientists have connected the mechanisms launching jets from supermassive black holes and those emerging ... Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest ...

NASA created a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away. The black hole is at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, ...

The supermassive black ... hole,” Ms Masterson said . “This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live very close to an event horizon for a relatively extended period of time.” ...