Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

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Scientists propose searching for primordial black holes in ancient rocks and hollow planets, offering new way to solve dark ...

A project is underway to investigate the production of “dark” oxygen further. Understanding the phenomenon better could help ...

Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...

Astronomers have uncovered the most distant blazar ever discovered, a supermassive black hole with a mass of 700 million suns ...