Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope detected several small red objects in the sky. Scientists referred to them […] ...

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

Researchers have discovered the largest black hole plasma jets ever in a galaxy almost 7 billion light years away from Earth.

In a groundbreaking follow-up to their 2019 reveal of the first black hole image, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team has ...

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we ...

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

An illustration shows seven "little red dot" galaxies embedded in the cosmic web, one of which is dominated by a supermassive black hole. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Using the James ...

A new analysis of M87*, the first black hole imaged by humanity, has revealed turbulence in the matter around it, which this ...

Recent research suggests that supermassive black holes' spin rates, linked to their formation history, indicate growth ...