Regular high-energy pulses of gamma-ray radiation emerging from around the Milky Way's central black hole may be coming from ...

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Two months ago, this particular supermassive black hole roughly 55 million light-years from Earth, known as M87*, was studied using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which combines data from ...

Stars are gravitationally fastened to their galaxies and move in concert with their surroundings. But sometimes, something ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious and powerful forces in the universe, but what if that power could be harnessed? Well, that’s exactly what researchers from Tianjin University ...

It is thought these are ... Study Hints at the Existence of the Closest Black Holes to Earth in the Hyades Star Cluster Sep. 8, 2023 — A new article hints at the existence of several black holes ...

Scientists have long believed that magnetic fields could suck energy out of black holes, but they didn't have proof — until ...

The telescopes used the light from a much closer cluster of galaxies, a mere 3.2 billion light-years from Earth, to magnify UHZ1 and its black hole much farther in the background. “It’s a ...

Money, engineering, and sheer geometry may mark an end of the line for building ever larger astronomical telescopes ...

In recently published findings, scientists announced the oldest black hole yet. A discovery that confirms what until now were theories that supermassive black holes existed at the dawn of the ...

Blazars are feeding supermassive black holes that sit at the hearts of active galaxies, blasting out enormous jets of radiation and matter. But unlike quasars, the cosmic twin of a blazar, these ...