Recent advancements in observational techniques have led to the capture of high-resolution images of black hole shadows, ...

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

During its 35 years of orbiting the Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope has transmitted endless streams of magnificent images, confirmed the existence of "dark matter," and helped track a vagabond black ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space. A distant galaxy is home to a ravenous supermassive black hole that appears to be ...

In this handout photo provided by the National Science Foundation, the Event Horizon Telescope captures a black hole at the center of galaxy M87 in an image released on April 10, 2019. (Photo by ...

James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' ...

Could a black hole really reach millions of solar masses in just 500 million years? Astronomers now have a definitive example that it can and the implications are rewriting models of early cosmic ...

Black holes continue to grip our imagination. These cosmic powerhouses twist space and time so intensely that even light cannot escape once it crosses a certain boundary. Their defining edge—the event ...

U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray ...

WR 124, a rare type of Wolf-Rayet star. X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: (Herschel) ESA/NASA/Caltech, (Spitzer) NASA/JPL/Caltech, (WISE) NASA/JPL/Caltech; Infrared ...

A mysterious ring of light is thought to surround every black hole, and Alex Lupsasca wants to glimpse one for the first time. The tendril-thin halo, called a photon ring, has the power to reveal ...