Everyone loves a good mystery, and astronomers have just uncovered a new one in a nearby supermassive galaxy called M87.…
Patterns in nature often occur in more than one place. Spirals, symmetry, and chaos all impact natural phenomena, from the…
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) just captured another amazing image, this time of the relativistic jet coming from the center…
A monster lurks at the heart of many galaxies – even our own Milky Way. This monster possesses the mass…
Can black holes be famous? If they can, then the one at the heart of the M87 galaxy qualifies. And…
A Russian-led team of astronomers has developed a method for estimating the mass of a supermassive black hole by looking…
Today, of course, we're going to talk about the announcement from the Event Horizon Telescope and the first photograph of…
"We have taken the first picture of a black hole." EHT project director Sheperd S. Doeleman of the Center for…
We talk about stellar mass and supermassive black holes. What are the limits? How massive can these things get? Without…
We've discovered dozens of so-called "hypervelocity stars" — single stars that break the stellar speed limit. But today astronomers multiplied…