Using the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have detected the largest black hole jet ever seen in the early universe. It's ...

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87 (M87*). This study ...

Neutrinos are very mysterious particles,” says Damien Dornic, one of the co-authors of a new paper published February 12 in ...

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

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

Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could ...

The speed at which a black hole spins is difficult to distinguish from the speed at which the surrounding flattened cloud of gas and dust — the accretion disk — rotates. "The challenge lies in ...

A mysterious cosmic explosion, EP240408A, detected in 2023, may reveal a new black hole phenomenon. Scientists are ...

This work highlights the transformative potential of observing the black hole evolving in time ... due to turbulence in the accretion disk. This behavior is consistent with predictions from ...

(Left) Artist’s impressions of a black hole and its accretion disk with different spins. (Right) the corresponding multiwavelength spectrum that would be observed in each one. | Credit ...