"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first image release includes a 'staggering' view of 10 million galaxies in and around the ...

Using millions of simulations and AI, astronomers discovered the Milky Way’s black hole spins near top speed. The breakthrough, supported by four decades of distributed computing innovation, hints at ...

Supermassive black holes—with masses ranging from millions to billions of times that of our sun—sit at the centers of most large galaxies. Astronomers have observed such black holes to exist as early ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Supermassive black holes — with masses ranging from millions to billions of times that of our sun — sit at the centers of most large galaxies. Astronomers have observed ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured a striking image of a distant quasar from the "cosmic noon," including a giant energy jet "being illuminated by the leftover glow from the Big Bang ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Recent analysis of M87's supermassive black hole shows it spins at about 80% of the theoretical maximum, with its accretion disk's inner edge moving at 0.14c.

It’s the largest black hole jet we’ve discovered to date. What makes this particular jet so exciting for astronomers is not only its size. It’s also estimated to be 1.2 billion years old.

Black holes don’t just sit quietly in the depths of space—they spin with immense energy, warping spacetime itself. But here’s where it gets even wilder: Some supermassive black holes at galaxy centers ...