What if the universe’s biggest monsters aren’t as massive as we thought? :milky_way: A groundbreaking new study reveals that supermassive black holes may actually be ten times smaller than scientists ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Could black holes help explain the origins of high-energy cosmic radiation? The universe is filled with many forms of ...

Travel to the event horizon in this amazing new black hole visualization from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/J. Schnittman and B. Powell Music: “Tidal ...

M87* is a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 55 million light-years away with a mass around 6.5 billion times the mass of ...

A series of observations between 2017 and 2021 suggest the supermassive structure’s magnetized plasma is more dynamic than ...

Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than ...

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For the first time, astronomers have directly measured a solar-system-size corona around a distant supermassive black hole, thanks to a rare cosmic alignment.

A decade ago, the universe whispered, and humanity, for the first time, had the tools to listen. On September 14, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) made history with ...