Galaxy NGC3799 lies around 16 million light years from Earth. Any event observed today within that galaxy took place 16…
Supermassive black holes have been found at the heart of most galaxies but understanding how they have formed has eluded…
Supermassive black holes are messy feeders, and when they're gorging on too much material, they can hurl high-energy jets into…
It's an exciting time in astronomy today, where records are being broken and reset regularly. We are barely two months…
Astronomers continue to find more and more evidence of black holes, but there's an alternative theory that could explain the…
The Universe is full of galaxies, many containing supermassive black holes. That sparked a question: which came first—the galaxies or…
The Event Horizon Telescope has given us amazing views of the supermassive black holes at the hearts of M87 and…
When doing the marketing for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA and the other telescope contributors liked to point…
We can't see them directly, but we know they're there. Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) likely dwell at the center of…
You might be surprised to learn there's a way to extract enormous energy from a rapidly spinning black hole. Known…