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

Back in 2009 astronomers spotted the same trend in jet knots blasted by a monster black hole in the center of M87 galaxy, ...

For a galaxy at its age, Pablo's Galaxy is massive. Formed during an early period in the universe's history and officially ...

In the evening, a gigantic bowl with thousands of pinprick holes is inverted over the ... detailed observations of what we now call the Whirlpool Galaxy, located 23 million light years from ...

Just when you finally start to get a fix on big black holes—like the supermassive one indicated by the blue dot in this NASA X-ray image of the Andromeda Galaxy—astrophysicists come along with ...

Japanese scientists argue that the Milky Way's black hole is shaped like an elongated oval rather than like a "doughnut." ...

The black hole’s mass is over half that of all the stars in the surrounding galaxy, a record for any galaxy hosting a quasar.

Your support makes all the difference. The famous first picture of the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy might not be accurate, a new study has claimed. The picture – initially ...

What is causing these massive, mysterious explosions in space? What is causing these massive, mysterious explosions in space? This black hole was formed when the universe was a toddler This black ...

And on a more personal level, the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy may have played a role in how Earth came to be here! Black holes themselves are invisible—they emit ...

Thousands of these stellar-mass black holes may lurk within our own Milky Way galaxy. Supermassive black holes, predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity, can have masses equal to ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a feeding black hole in the early universe that seems to be eating 40 times faster than is theoretically possible.