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

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

Right: Same simulation snapshots, blurred to match the EHT’s observational resolution. Credit: EHT collaboration In a groundbreaking follow-up to their 2019 reveal of the first black hole image, the ...

A groundbreaking reanalysis of the M87 galaxy’s supermassive black hole, M87*, unveils intriguing new insights into the structure and behavior of its plasma environment. Credit: EHT collaboration ...

"Black holes really do sit at the frontier of human understanding." Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as the ...

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as the result of a new form of "black hole archeology" that links black ...

Jets from black holes trigger cooling in the hot gas, causing it to condense into warm filaments. These filaments then flow toward the black hole, feeding it, and the cycle repeats. Brightness ...

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye. Researchers studied data from the ...

An artist's conception of a black hole's corona, which are the pale swirls above and below the black hole. Credit: NASA / Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State Univ.) A strange black hole is making ...