The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

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

Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

First images of Milky Way’s black hole released 02:13. The iconic 2019 image of a supermassive black hole that has since been dubbed the "orange donut" has gotten a makeover.

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...

Supermassive black hole found only half a billion years after Big Bang There just isn't time for something that big to grow from a supernova remnant. John Timmer – Nov 6, 2023 5:45 ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* is spinning nearly as fast as it can, dragging the very fabric of space-time with it and shaping the heart of the Milky Way. Skip to main content.