The supermassive black hole at the heart of M87 was the target of the Event Horizon Telescope, revealing the area…
At the heart of large galaxies like our Milky Way, there resides a supermassive black hole (SMBH.) These behemoths draw…
Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) are impossible to ignore. They can be billions of times more massive than the Sun, and…
The Hyades cluster is the closest open star cluster to Earth, located at a distance of about 150 light-years. Although…
Astronomers working with NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have spotted something unusual. The observatory's X-Ray Telescope (XRT) has captured emissions…
The Event Horizon Telescope is a collection of radio telescopes across the globe that simultaneously gathered data about the Milky…
Actively feeding supermassive black holes are known as quasars, and they can outshine all the stars of their host galaxy.…
One of the outstanding mysteries in astronomy is how supermassive black holes gained so much mass so early in the…
Astronomers have found stellar mass and supermassive black holes, but they're still on the hunt for an intermediate size; black…
Supermassive black holes haunt the cores of many galaxies. Yet for all we know about black holes (not nearly enough!),…