A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...

"This tells us that the magnetized plasma swirling near the event horizon is far from static; it's dynamic and complex, ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a ...

After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered an extreme version of "little red dots" dubbed "The Cliff." Its ...

Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made ...

"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...

Spacetime ripples from a black hole collision across the cosmos have confirmed weird aspects of black hole physics ...

Event Horizon Telescope data reveal the magnetic field around M87* shifted, weakened and then flipped, defying theoretical expectations.

The black hole at the centre of a galaxy more than 50 million light years away is spewing out a jet of extremely hot plasma – ...

When galaxies collide, it's not a gentle affair, but it does take millions of years. Over this time, the two massive star ...