Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...

The black hole is about 10 million times more massive than our sun, and is located in the center of a nearby spiral galaxy called I Zwicky, 1,800 million light-years away from Earth.

It’s a light show in space unlike any other. For the first time, scientists have detected light from behind a black hole, and it fulfills a prediction rooted in Albert Einstein’s theory of ...

Typically black holes destroy any light that goes near them – so this spectacle was one of fascination. But now, for the first time ever – scientists have seen light from behind a black hole ...

Black holes are already among the most mysterious objects in the galaxy, and yet, one specific type has almost completely ...

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

And this polarized light is what teaches information about the mechanisms around how a black hole feeds and how its magnetic fields look like. And it feeds gas very, very slowly.

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, scientists want to follow clues left behind by light that takes a round-a-bout ...

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