Long before researchers knew about quasars or black holes, astronomers were photographing what is now known as Quasar OJ287.

"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 ...

The polarization pattern around M87* — the first black hole to be directly imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope — has ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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

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