Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...

In 2022, the team at MIT combed through observations of the black hole taken by the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton, a space-based observatory that detects and measures X-ray emissions from ...

Supermassive black holes, on the other hand, have masses equivalent to millions, or even billions, of suns crammed into a space no more than a few billion miles wide. For context, the solar system ...

NASA has released an eerie audio clip of sound waves emanating from a supermassive black hole in the Perseus galaxy cluster, ...

The universe's most massive black holes fuel themselves by cooling gas around them, astronomers have found. Using data from ...

In 2022, the team looked through observations of the black hole taken by the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton, a space-based observatory that detects and measures X-ray emissions from black ...

It also happens to be one of the Webb Space Telescope’s specialties, which the telescope captures with its Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI). Cooling electrons in the black hole’s accretion disk ...

The astronomers ran simulations of what could drive these unusual bursts of energy around the black hole 1ES 1927+654, which they spotted with the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton satellite.

“That’s just one example of how black holes can influence a galaxy’s evolution.” The team of scientists used data taken from Nasa’s InfraRed Astronomy Satellite and the X-ray space ...

NASA created a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away. The black hole is at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, ...

Additionally, the team's method suggests the spin patterns of these black holes could reveal the region of space in which they were born. Even human DNA tests can't tell you what hospital a baby ...