Located approximately 27,000 light-years (one light year equals approximately nine trillion kilometres) from Earth — relatively close when it comes to galactic black holes — Sag A* has an estimated ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

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

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

Surprisingly, the black hole driving this colossal jet is modest by quasar standards, weighing 450 million times the mass of the sun. This discovery challenges long-held assumptions about the ...

Rapid X-ray oscillations detected near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole could indicate the presence of a nearby orbiter such as a white dwarf ...

"Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive radio jet does not have an extreme black hole mass compared to other quasars ...

Astronomers are trying to understand a mysterious cosmic explosion that the Einstein Probe spacecraft spotted in April last year.

A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...

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

Astrophysical jets from black holes play a key role in cosmic evolution, impacting star formation and revealing insights ...

New quantum computing research reveals that black holes may not have chaotic singularities but structured quantum states, ...