"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

The new research, led by Carlos R. Melo-Carneiro from the Institute of Physics at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, used a combination of gravitational lens modeling and detailed stellar ...

The famous black hole M87 keeps surprising us. New research calculates its spin speed to be at 80% of the theoretical limit, with matter falling into its maw even faster.

Researchers estimate that the jet spans nearly 200,000 light-years, more than twice the diameter of our own galaxy. It’s the largest black hole jet we’ve discovered to date.

Three supermassive black holes are gobbling up stars 10 times the size of the sun. Shredding them is creating the biggest explosions since the dawn of the universe.

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration released the first image of a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87. In 2022, ...

Astronomers Claim the Big Bang May Have Taken Place Inside a Black Hole. Was the “Big Bang” a cosmic rebound? New study suggests the Universe may have started inside a giant black hole.