Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

not even light, can escape. In their new study, the researchers used data collected from M87* in 2017 and 2018 to both image and create computer models of the black hole's accretion disk.

The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...

What exists at the core of a black hole? A research team led by Enrico Rinaldi, a physicist at the University of Michigan, ...

The image of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of massive elliptical galaxy M87, changed the world. It was the ...

If the doughnut hole is facing toward Earth, the bright central disk within it is ... and wavelengths of light together." Determining the number of hidden black holes compared to nonhidden ones ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

University of Arizona astronomers have now produced the highest resolution direct images ever taken of a supermassive black hole in the infrared, using the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.

Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that black holes can cool gas to the proper temperature for a cosmic feast ...

The cooler environment of the disk can emit optical and ultraviolet light, but rarely gives off X-rays. “Seeing something in the X-rays is already telling you you’re pretty close to the black ...