A Closer Look at M87 M87 was discovered by Charles Messier in 1781. He classified it and eight other similar deep space ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster's black hole and M87's jet have been turned into sound ...

NGC 4945, a beautiful spiral galaxy over 12 million light-years away, hides a ferocious secret: a ravenous black hole at its ...

Astronomers using NASA’s IXPE satellite have finally cracked a cosmic mystery—how X-rays are produced in the energetic jets ...

A regular black hole would have the light ring and the outer horizon, but also an inner horizon, which would enclose a core ...

Black holes are known for their voracious appetites, consuming everything — even light — that falls inside them with no hope of escape. But in 1974, Stephen Hawking proposed that in fact ...

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar feature: the singularity at the center—a point, hidden behind the ...

Stellar black holes, these cosmic monsters born from the collapse of massive stars, play a key role in galaxy dynamics. A ...

A black hole 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun, imaged by the EHT, with a shadow outlined by hot gas swirling around it. A galaxy with a supermassive black hole, imaged by NASA’s Chandra X ...

A team of researchers has succeeded in recreating for the first time in a laboratory experiment a phenomenon that until now only existed as a theory in the realm of black holes. The experiment ...

A beautiful but skewed spiral galaxy dazzles in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy, called Arp 184 or NGC ...

Using a spinning aluminium cylinder and clever magnetic fields, scientists have recreated a phenomenon once thought only possible near black holes. A Black Hole Idea Born in 1969 In 1969 ...