By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole that's shooting a giant energy ... Radio waves from this blazar traveled more than 12.9 billion light-years to reach us, which is a new ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...

Researchers have discovered the largest black hole plasma jets ever in a galaxy almost 7 billion light years away from Earth.

The black hole is known as 1ES 1927+654, has the mass of a million of suns and is in a galaxy roughly 270 million light years away. It was already fascinating to scientists. In 2018, they watched ...

More information: George N. Wong et al, Measuring Black Hole Light Echoes with Very Long Baseline Interferometry, The ...